[ovirt-users] Max amount of datacenters per ovirt engine

[Joost at familiealbers.nl]

Thanks a lot for feedback!


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> Op 26 apr. 2016 om 14:56 heeft Alexander Wels <awels at redhat.com> het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 02:29:22 PM Joost at familiealbers.nl wrote:
>> Thanks for the response. If possible i would like to reduce the amount of
>> tooling. We already have quite a lot. Do you think a single ovirt engine
>> could cope?
> 
> The reason I mentioned manage IQ is that it would give you one tool to manage 
> everything. You would not have to do much (perhaps the initial setup) in the 
> oVirt manager. After that everything goes through manage IQ. Since it is 
> designed to manage the managers it is much more fault tolerant which appears 
> to be one of your requirements.
> 
> As far as max number of data centers goes. I am not entirely sure to be 
> honest. But I believe your proposed setup will push the engine beyond it 
> limits. I would definitely go with multiple engine instances, maybe in zones 
> where the connection to the hosts is better, and then something to control the 
> engines from a central location (like manage IQ).
> 
> 
>> Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone
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>>> Op 26 apr. 2016 om 14:19 heeft Alexander Wels <awels at redhat.com> het
> volgende geschreven:
>>>> On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 12:13:11 PM Joost at familiealbers.nl wrote:
>>>> Hi all, i have a somewhat awkward requirement to deploy datacenters to
>>>> around 500 satelite locations. Each datacenter will have 1 or 2
>>>> hypervisors
>>>> and if 2 a cluster with glusterfs for shared storage will be deployed. I
>>>> am
>>>> expecting to run between 4 and 10 vms  per data center. During operations
>>>> it is expected 20% to 40% of the satelite locations will be down or have
>>>> a
>>>> very bad connection to the engine. I will still like to manage these
>>>> datacenters from ovirt engine. Does anyone have any figures on how many
>>>> datacenters i can add given what requirements for a single engine and
>>>> perhaps some best practices for dealing with 'bad' connections between
>>>> the
>>>> hypervisors and the engine. Thanks a lot!
>>> 
>>> Sounds like a good use case for manage IQ. If possible I would do hosted
>>> engines in each satellite location, and then use manage IQ to manage the
>>> engines.
>>> 
>>> Alexander
>>> 
>>> ps.
>>> Vrolijk Koning dag morgen
>>> 
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