[ovirt-users] Need Advice on Hosted Engine installation

[Doron Fediuck]

On 07/06/15 22:13, wodel youchi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are installing a new ovirt platform for a client. this is our first
> deployment.
> 
> we chose Hosted Engine install.
> 
> here is the hardware used and the network configuration used be patient :)
> 
> We have 02 hypervisors for now.
> 
> each sever has 8 nic ports, we will use bonding.
> 
> A NAS with nfs4 for the Engine_VM the ISO and Export domains.
> 
> And iSCSI SAN for the rest of the VMs (Data domain)
> 
> At first we chose as a network configuration:
> 
> 10.0.0.X/16 as DMZ (ovirtmgmt will use this network)
> 
> 172.16.1/24 as Storage network. we've configured our nfs to export only
> on this network.
> 
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> We didn't configure the bonding manually at first, we thought that we
> could do it once the engine is up.... we couldn't :-(
> 
> for ovirtmgmt, if we create the bond after the engine's installation, we
> could not modify the configuration, error message "network in use"
> 
> for the storage network, we could't attach this logical network to the
> nic used for the storage, because when we do that we loose the connexion
> to nfs for the VM engine...
> 
> so we had to export the VM engine nfs's share on DMZ and we had to
> configure bonding before starting the hosted engine installation.
> 
> We also configured bonding on storage network, but after the engine
> installation, we couldn't attach this bonding to the logical network
> Storage, error message "you have to specify network address if static
> protocol is used", the IP address is specified, it's the IP address of
> the bonding... :-(
> 
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> Questions:
> 
> - Do we missed anything on network configuration capabilities of ovirt?
> or the hosted engine is really a special case?
Hosted engine is indeed a special case. We're working on some
improvements for 3.6.

> - What is the best way to configure ovirt's Hosted Engine storage?
In what way? ie- it should be as reliable as you can make it.

> - For the rest of the network, do we have to configure bonding and
> bridging from the GUI only? (not manually)
If the networks should be recognized by ovirt, then it's wither the UI
or the REST API.

> 
> thanks in advance.
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