[ovirt-users] Re: Mixing OS versions

[Stack Korora]

On 2020-06-01 16:31, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
>
>
> Il giorno lun 1 giu 2020 alle ore 17:52 Stack Korora
> mailto:stackkor...@disroot.org>> ha scritto:
>
> Greetings,
> We've been using Scientific Linux 7 quite successfully with oVirt for
> years now. However, since there will not be a SL8 we are transitioning
> new servers to CentOS8. I would like to add a new oVirt hypervisor
> node.
>
> How bad of an idea is it to have a 8 system when the rest are 7 even
> though the version of oVirt will be the same?
>
>
> Please note the oVirt version can't be the same on el7 and el8 because
> hosts on el8 are supported only by oVirt 4.4 and oVirt 4.4 is not
> available on el7.
> You can upgrade the engine to 4.4 and then add el8 hosts while still
> keeping el7 hosts until you finish the upgrade.


Thank you for the clarification! I appreciate it.


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[ovirt-users] Re: Mixing OS versions

[Sandro Bonazzola]

Il giorno lun 1 giu 2020 alle ore 17:52 Stack Korora <
stackkor...@disroot.org> ha scritto:

> Greetings,
> We've been using Scientific Linux 7 quite successfully with oVirt for
> years now. However, since there will not be a SL7 we are transitioning
> new servers to CentOS8. I would like to add a new oVirt hypervisor node.
>
> How bad of an idea is it to have a 8 system when the rest are 7 even
> though the version of oVirt will be the same?
>

Please note the oVirt version can't be the same on el7 and el8 because
hosts on el8 are supported only by oVirt 4.4 and oVirt 4.4 is not available
on el7.
You can upgrade the engine to 4.4 and then add el8 hosts while still
keeping el7 hosts until you finish the upgrade.

-- 

Sandro Bonazzola

MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R RHV

Red Hat EMEA 

sbona...@redhat.com


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