I'm running single node hosted engine 4.0.x with local NFS and it runs just 
fine. Thanks

Regards,
Philip Lo

> On 5 Sep 2016, at 5:45 AM, Christophe TREFOIS <christophe.tref...@uni.lu> 
> wrote:
> 
> I’m running 3.6 with local NFS for the hosted engine. I have more than one 
> host but they are all isolated and export they storage via local NFS. Setup 
> has been running since 1 year now.
>  
> Maye you can give it a try?
>  
> Cheers,
> Chris
>  
> From: users-boun...@ovirt.org [mailto:users-boun...@ovirt.org] On Behalf Of 
> zero four
> Sent: dimanche 4 septembre 2016 22:45
> To: users@ovirt.org
> Subject: [ovirt-users] oVirt on a single server
>  
> My current understanding is that oVirt no longer supports any single-server 
> configuration since the All-In-One install was removed in 3.6.  While the 
> hosted-engine install was supposed to replace it, it requires either 
> networked storage (nfs, iscsi) or Glusterfs.  To my knowledge nfs/iscsi 
> exported to localhost is not supported, so I would need at least 2 machines.  
> Furthermore Gluster requires at least 3 sources of storage for quorum (it 
> would be great if there was an option to acknowledge the risks and continue), 
> meaning a single machine is not practical.
>  
> I understand and acknowledge that oVirt is not targeted towards homelab 
> setups, or at least small homelab setups.  However I believe that having a 
> solid configuration for such use cases would be a benefit to the project as a 
> whole.  It allows oVirt to be much more visible in the homelab community, and 
> more accessible to testing which in turn yields more people who have 
> experience with oVirt.  As it stands most other virtualization products allow 
> for usage (not just a livecd) in a single server environment, although not 
> all features can be used of course.  vSphere, Xenserver, Proxmox, FIFO, and 
> Nutanix all allow an installation on a single server. It appears that 
> oVirt/RHV is the odd-one out - and it honestly shows when you look at what 
> people talk about online - there is a huge gap between even Proxmox and oVirt 
> when it comes to mindshare in the tech community, and it does not favor oVirt.
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