[ovirt-users] How To: Node Hosted-Engine with less then 16GB

[Fabian Deutsch]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Alain Gilmor <Alain.Gilmor at geemedia.com> wrote:
> Here’s a short guide for people having trouble setting up Hosted-Engine
> using only Ovirt Nodes.   Anything to do with ‘ jenkins’ OVA did not work
> for me, size mismatch, etc.

Hey Alain,

a quite late reply, but still ..

Thzat's annoying, can you tell what Node builld you used?
We have seen this problem, and it shoul dhave been fixed lately.

> Anytime I tried to deploy the Hosted-Engine via the Node TUI, I was not
> prompted to adjust the amount of RAM the Hosted-Engine VM takes.  (default
> 16GB).   After the deploy setup, the Hosted-Engine VM would not boot.
>
> When using a regular Ovirt host to deploy the Hosted-Engine, I was prompted
> to adjust the RAM for the Hosted Engine!
>
>
>
> Solution  :
>
> Install ovirt-engine RPMs on “host1”.
>
> Install ovirt-hosted-engine-appliance RPM. Copy its OVA from
> /usr/share/ovirt-engine-appliance/  to your webserver
>
> Run hosted-engine –deploy from “host1”.  Adjust the RAM to 4096.
> Run the Hosted-Engine deploy from Node.  Let it SCP the config from “host1”
>
> Reboot Host1 as make it another Node.

Nice guide!

- fabian


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Fabian Deutsch <fdeutsch at redhat.com>
RHEV Hypervisor
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