[ovirt-users] New installation

[Juan Pablo]

David, if you are not centralizing on a storage[nfs/iscsi], you should
deploy gluster to make the disks available to all the virt hosts.

regards,



2017-06-13 14:43 GMT-03:00 david caughey <djc636 at gmail.com>:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I just got the go ahead to install oVirt to use as a lab.
> The servers are:
> 1xdl360 4x30010k in raid 10 for OS (Manager) should this be clustered with
> another server for resiliency
> 5xdl380 2x30010k for OS 6x1TB7.2k RAID5 on each for a data store
> It will all be behind a proxy and be connected with 1GB links, (2x4 bonds)
>
> My plan is to have 1 manager as this is a lab scenario and not production,
> (yet), or is it better to have a cluster.
>
> Is it ok to have a data store on each host, (they won't let me have
> dedicated storage yet)?
> Is it wise to share these data_stores between hosts or should 1 store be
> dedicated to each host individually?
>
> There is no need for performance, basically as long as it runs it will work.
> The final intention is to have templates for OpenStack and CEPH plus lots of
> Linux examples set up with SDN etc.
> We have a 90% Windows shop but it is all rapidly changing to OpenStack et al
> and I want to try and give people the opportunity to use Linux in the lab
> before they are let lose in production.
> Plus it gives me the chance to show management exactly what ovirt can do.
>
> Any help, advice or links would be greatly appreciated,
>
> BR/David
>
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