[ovirt-users] Can ISO Domain be shared across multiple data centers? Ovirt 3.5, 3.6? Does not appear so

[Itamar Heim]

On 11/02/2015 10:14 AM, Robert Story wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 18:58:33 -0400 Liam wrote:
> LC> Tried setting up NFS ISO domain which works on one host/local
> LC> datacenter. I do not want to have to have multiple copies of iso files
> LC> on all hosts. If I try to import pre-existing ISO domain, I either get
> LC> an error that storage path exists or the dialog just does nothing.
>
> I had the same goal, but for multiple independent ovirt installs. My
> work-around is to deal with it outside ovirt.
>
> - create generic nfs export for my iso mirrors
> - create iso export points for each install
> - add iso mount to each install
> - manually (or using puppet, etc) add mirror mount on each host node
> - run a script that creates a symlink in each ovirt iso mirror for all the
>    isos in the mirror export
>    - 3.5 handles iso images in subdirectories, but 3.4 does not [1], so the
>      script creates symlinks for every iso image in the top level of the iso
>      export for 3.4, while only needing a symlnk to the distro directory fro
>      3.5.
>
> It's a hack, but it works.

This should work without any hacks. An ISO domain can be shared between 
multiple DCs or Engines.
Tal?


>
>
> Robert
>
> [1] 3.4 will descend to subdirectories to display the list of iso images
> when attaching them in the UI, but the host will fail to boot because it
> can't find the image unless it's at the top level.
>
>
>
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