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

[Fabian Deutsch]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Alain Gilmor <Alain.Gilmor at geemedia.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Fabien.  I had to un-sub because I was getting too much mail.
>
>
> ovirt-node-iso-3.6-0.999.201511061021.el7.centos.iso
>
> ovirt-engine-appliance-20151104.0-1.el7.centos.ova  (extracted from ovirt-hosted-engine-appliance RPM as described)

Ah yes, both builds were quite old.

If you want to give it another try, I'd suggest you try out some
builds which are not older than a week, they should be working much
better.

> I would love if the Node TUI could default to a HTTP hosted OVA instead of requiring me to extract, place it on a webserver.

You mean, it should default to the i.e. jenkins url?

Our experience was that it was quite unreliable to pull ~3GB of data
from the internet, thus we recommend to download the OVA and host it
manually.

- fabian

> I tried both the TUI method, and dropping to root & running the command line node-hosted-engine setup.  Always ended up with 16GB.
>
>
> =)  cheers
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Fabian Deutsch <fdeutsch at redhat.com>
> Sent: December 10, 2015 8:38 AM
> To: Alain Gilmor
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] How To: Node Hosted-Engine with less then 16GB
>
> 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
>
>
> --
> Fabian Deutsch <fdeutsch at redhat.com>
> RHEV Hypervisor
> Red Hat



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