[ovirt-users] ovirt-hosted-engine-setup and single machine install

[Johan Vermeulen]

Hello Roman and Simone,

thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
I just messed up the first attempt by selection the wrong interface during
the install.
But I think I get the overall picture.

Greetings, J.

2015-11-24 9:39 GMT+01:00 Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>:

>
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Roman Mohr <rmohr at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Johan,
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Johan Vermeulen <jameslast29 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> after configuring a first setup, based on the quick start guide, I'm now
>>> looking
>>> at the hosted-engine setup.
>>> My question is: after I do the hosted-engine-setup, how do I setup vm's
>>> on the same
>>> machine that hosts the now-virtualized engine?
>>>
>>
>> You can add this host like any other host. You will then also see the
>> hosted engine VM as a special VM in the VMs tab of the web admin portal.
>> Just make sure that your VM can reach the physical host.
>>
>
> Just an addition: your first host will be automatically added to your
> engine so you don't have to do anything special on that.
> hosted-engine on the other side, is using a dedicated storage domain for
> the engine VM and you cannot use it for other VMs so you still need to add
> a second storage domain for regular VMs.
>
> Take care that loopback mounting NFS could lead to deadlocks:
>  https://lwn.net/Articles/595652/
> On a single host with the storage on the same host iSCSI seams more
> reliable.
>
>
>>
>>> Greetings, J.
>>>
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>> Best Regards,
>> Roman
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