[ovirt-users] Managing two DCs with ovirt

Donny Davis donny at cloudspin.me
Wed Oct 7 22:13:37 UTC 2015


+1 to Barak's statement... Another option is foreman to manage both

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Barak Korren <bkorren at redhat.com> wrote:

> You could combine method #1 with ManageIQ [1] to get unified management.
>
> Barak.
>
> [1] http://manageiq.org/
>
> On 6 October 2015 at 19:25, Darrell Budic <budic at onholyground.com> wrote:
> > I use method 1. One thing to consider is that the engine manages HA VMs,
> migrations, etc. It doesn’t need much bandwidth, but if it can’t talk to
> nodes, no migrations can happen, either for load balancing or in case of a
> node or storage failure.
> >
> > If you had very solid networking, it’s probably fine, but I find it
> works better in my situation to run a self hosted engine for each cluster.
> >
> >   -Darrell
> >
> >> On Oct 5, 2015, at 2:17 PM, wodel youchi <wodel.youchi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I need some help to decide which is better / feasible with ovirt to
> manage two or more distant DCs.
> >>
> >> Let say that we have two distant DCs to virtualize with ovirt.
> >>
> >> we have two options to manage them:
> >>
> >> 1- install two engines, one on each DC, the good side is, if one DC is
> down, we can still manage the other one. the down side we will have two
> consoles to manage.
> >>
> >> 2- install one engine to manage the two DCs, the good side is the use
> of one console to rule them all :-) the down side is if the DC containing
> the engine become down, there is way to manage the other one.
> >>
> >> is there (will be there in the future) a way for example to create a
> slave engine in the second DC which can takeover and let the admin to
> manage the second DC?
> >>
> >> thanks in advance
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