[ovirt-users] Hosted-engine --deploy FQDN questions

[Marcin Mirecki]

Mark,

hosted_engine_1 is of course the name of the host in the system.
Sorry for the confusion.

Marcin

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Steckel" <mjs at fix.net>
> To: "Marcin Mirecki" <mmirecki at redhat.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2016 10:36:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted-engine --deploy FQDN questions
> 
> Marcin,
> 
> ----- Marcin Mirecki <mmirecki at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Mark,
> > 
> > >           Enter the name which will be used to identify this host inside
> > >           the
> > >           Administrator Portal [hosted_engine_1]:
> > 
> > This is the name used for the host inside the Administrator Portal, so
> > basically
> > the name of the VM inside the system.
> > This does not have to be the hostname, but there are also no objection for
> > it.
> > 
> > 
> > >           Engine FQDN:  []:
> > Yes, you are correct. This must be the FQDN of the host, resolvable to IP.
> > This fqdn will be used to access the administration portal.
> 
> If I understand you correctly, both questions apply to the hosted engine vm.
> Correct?
> 
> (If so, I'm glad I asked, because I initially and incorrectly thought that
> the first question referred to the bare metal machine that hosts the hosted
> engine vm.)
> 
> Thanks
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Marcin
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Mark Steckel" <mjs at fix.net>
> > > To: users at ovirt.org
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2016 6:08:38 AM
> > > Subject: [ovirt-users] Hosted-engine --deploy FQDN questions
> > > 
> > > Folks,
> > > 
> > > I'm an OVirt newbie having troubles setting up my first Hosted Engine and
> > > am
> > > stumbling. In this case I think it may be because of the following two
> > > set-up questions.
> > > 
> > >           Enter the name which will be used to identify this host inside
> > >           the
> > >           Administrator Portal [hosted_engine_1]:
> > >           Please provide the FQDN for the engine you would like to use.
> > >           This needs to match the FQDN that you will use for the engine
> > >           installation within the VM.
> > >           Note: This will be the FQDN of the VM you are now going to
> > >           create,
> > >           it should not point to the base host or to any other existing
> > >           machine.
> > >           Engine FQDN:  []:
> > > 
> > > My read of this is that the first question is asking for the name of the
> > > host, while the second question is asking for the name (FQDN) of the
> > > guest
> > > vm which will be the hosted-engine. Is this correct?
> > > 
> > > I'm also presuming that a) the first question should be the hostname of
> > > the
> > > host, and b) that both the host and guest hostnames should resolve to IP
> > > addresses.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > Mark
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> 
>