On 18-11-2016 23:47, Mark Steckel wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm a complete OVirt newbie trying to set up a self hosted, single server and > looking for some pointers to get going... (While new to OVirt, I'm long time > sysadmin so not totally clueless.) > > The server I'm using has a 4-core CPU, 64 GB of ram, and a pair of 500 GB > SSDs set up with RAID 1 and running CentOS 7.2. (I do not have physical > access to the server but can get KVM access when required.) > > The goal is to set up this server as a self hosted, single server OVirt > platform. Nothing mission critical, just want to be able to spin up VMs when > needed and destroy them afterwards. > > Trying to use OVirt 4.0.4 (now 4.0.5). > > I've read some docs for setting this up including those just below as well as > a bunch of googling and reading through the list archive. > > http://www.ovirt.org/documentation/how-to/hosted-engine/ > http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/heapplianceflow/ > > http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/08/up-and-running-with-ovirt-4-0-and-gluster-storage/ > > Every time I execute "hosted-engine --deploy" the process "hangs" when it > migrates the public IP address to a virtual nic interface. And in this case, > by "hang" I mean that I lose the connection to the server. I have no idea if > the process finishes or errors out. > > So obviously I'm doing something wrong. > > I suspect that I need to take care of some network requirement before > starting. However, I can't find anything in the docs of how to prep the > server network environment before running "hosted-engine --deploy". > > Should probably also mention that some, if not all of the VMs will need a > public IP address. The physical server has a /29 to get started. > I have never setup such a server but if you create the ovirtmgmt bridge first then the deploy will leave it alone and you won't lose network connectivity.
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