Re: mgmt node on kvm host

2019-06-21 Thread Andrija Panic
To be clear, your hypervisor hosts need to be empty while adding them to ACS. In regards to VMware, that guy also needs to be empty before adding a VMware cluster to ACS. Technically, you could later add additional mgmt server and migrate your DB to a VM, but don't do it for many reasons, please.

Re: mgmt node on kvm host

2019-06-20 Thread jesse . waters
Coming from vmware environments where vcenter has almost always been a hosted vm. You could give mgmt node highest priority over other VMs, but safe approach as you stated is to keep it outside. Environment I am stand up is going to be very light use and wanting to keep infrastructure as light as p

Re: mgmt node on kvm host

2019-06-20 Thread Andrija Panic
In short, Never, EVER, do such thing (especially in production of any kind). Mgmt server (any auxiliary components like standalone DB server, billing software, monitoring software, load balancers etc - all things that are needed for production...) can be on KVM nodes, but a standalone KVM nodes,

mgmt node on kvm host

2019-06-20 Thread jesse . waters
How are most of you running your management node? On a standalone host(s) outside hypervisors? On managed hypervisor hosts? What I want to do is have management node on kvm hosts that it manages. What I am not certain is how I get it in there in 1st place. Other than standing up a temporary mgmt n