[ovirt-users] Single server hosted engine... almost there

[Mark Steckel]

Hi,

----- Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, December 8, 2016 11:15 am, Mark Steckel wrote:
> >
> > ----- Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Mark Steckel <mjs at fix.net> writes:
> >>
> >> > Am I missing and or just misunderstanding something here?
> >> >
> >> > Oh, and does ip_forwarding need to be set in the kernel? (ie
> >> > net.ipv4.ip_forward=1)
> >>
> >> If you expect the host to act as the router for your /29, then yes, it
> >> would need to forward packets.  You will also need to set up the
> >> firewall on the host to properly forward packets through.
> >>
> >> It honestly might be easier for you to get an actual router instead of
> >> trying to force your host to act as both host+router.  I suspect the
> >> hosted-engine --deploy script wouldn't really know how to properly
> >> handle the host as a router so it might either break that configuration
> >> or at least not know how to set it up.
> >
> > Agreed. Unfortunately, the hosting company (Hetzner) providing the server
> > requires the /29 to be on the host.
> >
> > Googling "ovirt Hetzner" shows that a number of people have attempted this
> > at Hetzner and have run into various problems. Here is one of the more
> > relevant examples:
> >
> >     http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-January/019785.html
> > (check out the first link)
> >     http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-February/020913.html
> >
> > So it seems this is doable, but needs a bit more finesse than I've used so
> > far.
> 
> Yeah, I suspect you will need to set up your engine NOT using the
> appliance, but instead install CentOS and then the engine inside the VM. 
> This will give you more direct access to the engine VM, and should give
> you the opportunity to set up the bridge routing during the process.

Makes sense, at least in concept. 

But are you suggesting that I manually set up the vm for the engine (ie not use "hosted-engine --deploy") and then manually run engine setup from w/i the vm?



> 
> > Mark
> 
> -derek
> 
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