You can set up a localhost NFS server to serve out the local storage. Just ensure you have enough RAM so you don't hit the potential NFS dead-locking problem. I've been running in this configuration for several years. I've got 256GB RAM on the host. Works great for me.
-derek On Tue, January 21, 2020 3:05 am, Joseph Goldman wrote: > I dont think a bare-metal engine can be a compute node as well. > > On 2020-01-21 6:46 PM, Tony Brian Albers wrote: >> On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 07:35 +0000, [email protected] wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I can't seem to install the self-hosted engine onto local storage. It >>> gives me glustefs, iscsi, fc, and nfs as the available options. I'm >>> using this in a home-lab scenario, and don't have budget/etc. for >>> building out a dedicated NAS for it, or setting up multiple nodes. I >>> like the look of oVirt, and wanted to try it with a couple disposable >>> vm's (plex, and a docker instance I break often). My current best- >>> thought for how to make it work is to setup NFS on the server, and >>> then point the self-hosted engine at the (local) NFS share. Is there >>> a better way to do this that I might be overlooking?* >>> >>> *Factoring that I don't have the funds to build out a proper storage >>> environment, yet. >>> >>> (and if anyone asks, I did search for a solution to this, but didn't >>> find anything super helpful. Mostly I found 5+ year old articles on a >>> similar but different scenario). >>> >> Well, if you can live with a regular engine(not self-hosted), this >> works: >> >> https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/install-guide/chap-Installing_oVirt.html >> >> >> HTH >> >> /tony >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ >> oVirt Code of Conduct: >> https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ >> List Archives: >> https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NT2D5DZWGFOM3MEZZNQ4K3QERITKGN2Y/ > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VB3INTSWVRKGAZWAQKPKUHNHWIJCQU3S/ > -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 [email protected] www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/STTLMFU3KUJMSR4AOV3PMUAFX23QW7AU/
