[Users] new oVirt installation recommendations

[Jason Keltz]

On 10/08/2013 02:38 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 10/08/2013 05:53 PM, Jason Keltz wrote:
>> On 10/08/2013 10:43 AM, David Sloane wrote:
>>> Regarding power management, if you get DRAC (Enterprise or Basic, not
>>> sure) you should be able to do out-of-band power management.
>>>
>>> If you're going to spend the money for three R620's with 128 GB of RAM
>>> each and dual cpu's, you might be a little better off with a 2nd root
>>> HDD for redundancy.
>> I would have done that, but oVirt node doesn't support md raid1 at this
>> time.  As far as I understand, there is no redundancy on the node root
>> disk.
>
> for things not supported by node, but supported by a full blown OS 
> (fedora/centos), you can always use that option (full blown OS rather 
> than node)
>
Absolutely.. but installing a whole O/S just to get the ability to 
mirror the root disk is a bit overkill :)
I might use the hardware RAID option...  I do wish that the node 
supported md... md raid1 (or heck, even lvm raid1) works great...

Jason.