[Users] RAID1 mirror on ovirt-node + engine nfs server

[Itamar Heim]

On 07/04/2013 07:18 PM, Jason Keltz wrote:
> I also have a question about the storage backend.  In particular, I have
> a pretty powerful server that I intend to use as the NFS server, and a
> few servers to use as nodes.  On the other hand, I don't have a powerful
> machine (at the moment) to use for the ovirt-engine.  Would it be poor
> practice to run the ovirt-engine ON the NFS server?  During engine
> setup, I see that you can setup an NFS share for ISOs from the
> ovirt-engine, but I don't think there's mention of just generalized
> storage there.  I suspect it's "poor practice", but I thought I'd ask
> anyway.   My setup will be relatively small (say, 4 nodes), and this
> would let me reduce 1 general server from the infrastructure (dedicated
> ovirt-engine).

"powerful" is relative. engine doesn't need a very strong server. you 
can also run it in a VM which is easier to move around later / increase 
resources for.