[ovirt-users] Ovirt node ready for production env?

[Yaniv Kaul]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 7:42 PM, Vinícius Ferrão <ferrao at if.ufrj.br> wrote:

> Hello Lionel,
>
> Production ready it's definitely yes. Red Hat even sells RHV-H, which is
> the same thing as oVirt Node. But keep in mind one thing: it's an
> appliance. So modifications on the appliance isn't really supported. As far
> as I know oVirt Node is based on imgbase and updates/security are done
> through yum. But when an update is made everything is rewritten. So you
> will lose your modifications if you install additional packages on oVirt
> Node.
>
> The host is stateless, so you don't really need to backup it, the core is
> running on hosted engine.
>
> About the other questions, I can't add anything since I'm new to oVirt
> too. Perhaps someone could complete my answer.
>

The answers above are inaccurate wrt recent oVirt node, which:
1. does allow you to install additional packages (via 'yum')
2. and does save them between upgrades.

Y.


>
> V.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 20 Jul 2017, at 03:59, Lionel Caignec <caignec at cines.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > i'm did not test myself so i prefer asking before use it (
> https://www.ovirt.org/node/).
> > Is ovirt node can be used for production environment ?
> > Is it possible to add some software on host (ex: backup tools, ossec,...
> )?
> > How does work security update, is it managed by ovirt? or can i plug
> ovirt node on spacewalk/katello?
> >
> >
> > Sorry for my "noobs question"
> >
> > Regards
> > --
> > Lionel
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