Re: [Users] Docker -- self-sufficient application containers

2013-10-25 Thread David Sloane
My understanding of Docker is that it provides a lighter-weight alternative to jboss or tomcat, but I'm not sure how much you would extend ovirt with a java application server. DS -Original Message- From: users-boun...@ovirt.org [mailto:users-boun...@ovirt.org] On Behalf Of Jorick Astr

Re: [Users] Recommended OS for stability and centralized NFS storage?

2013-10-14 Thread David Sloane
Hi Joop, Thanks for the quick reply. Do you use the EL6 or the FC18 (or FC19) packages with your CentOS-oVirt system(s)? DS -Original Message- From: Joop van de Wege [mailto:jvdw...@xs4all.nl] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 11:52 AM To: David Sloane; users@ovirt.org Subject: Re

[Users] Recommended OS for stability and centralized NFS storage?

2013-10-14 Thread David Sloane
I've had some challenges getting oVirt running without errors on CentOS 6.4 64-bit, and some NIC-driver-loading problems with the Fedora build of the oVirt node (ovirt-node-iso-3.0.1-1.0.2.vdsm.fc19 vs. igb driver + Intel I340-T4). I'm trying to find the right balance of stability and hardware s

Re: [Users] new oVirt installation recommendations

2013-10-08 Thread David Sloane
Sure, but you could use hardware raid 1 with a basic hba. Original message From: Jason Keltz Date: 10/08/2013 10:52 AM (GMT-05:00) To: David Sloane Cc: users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [Users] new oVirt installation recommendations On 10/08/2013 10:43 AM, David Sloane wrote

Re: [Users] new oVirt installation recommendations

2013-10-08 Thread David Sloane
Regarding power management, if you get DRAC (Enterprise or Basic, not sure) you should be able to do out-of-band power management. If you're going to spend the money for three R620's with 128 GB of RAM each and dual cpu's, you might be a little better off with a 2nd root HDD for redundancy. -