Hi Ethan, On 11/17/25 14:48, Ethan Provensen via Users wrote:
Again, I am new with all of this. I have been trying to figure out the most efficient setup, and learning oVirt at the same time. I do not have any experience with oVirt at all. I have 3 Dell PowerEdge servers which will be the 3 hosts, and I have an IBM SAN. I have a LAN connection and a separate iSCSI connection (to the IBM SAN) for each host. Looking over the setups, I feel the Self-Hosted Engine Architecture will work best. I have several questions about this setup: 1- I understand the Manager is a VM on 1 of the hosts, but what about the oVirt Engine?
Manager = oVirt engine. It can be hosted as VM on one of hosts (it is called Selfhosted Engine (SE)) or can be run on separate server (Standalone Engine)
2- Can the oVirt Engine be a VM also on 1 of the hosts? Or should the oVirt Engine be a separate VM not hosted on 1 of the 3 hosts? 3- What is the difference between the Manager and Engine? 4- Can the oVirt Engine also be the Manager as 1 VM? 5- Does the oVirt Engine have to be on the same VLAN as the 3 hosts?
it depends on your topology. In standalone deployment it can be on different vlan for sure, for SE I am not sure at the moment (I am running SE on the same vlan as hosts in my topology but I am not sure if it is condition or not).
Cheers, Jiri
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Please respond. Thank you, Ethan _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GYCGCDRTUDFNAKH6BKZXWN7DVVV2IDOE/
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