Thanks very much for these suggestions and assistance.

Peter

On Mon., Dec. 3, 2018, 3:26 a.m. Staniforth, Paul <
[email protected] wrote:

> Hello Peter,
>                        if you install it on one VM it will only run on one
> of the hosts however if you had a distributed scanner it could run on
> multiple hosts. I think there was some work with a distibuted scanner in
> docker (don't know if there is openshift or kubernetes) but it may be
> better to run it in a docker or kubernetes cluster rather than oVirt.
>
> Regards,
>                  Paul S.
> ________________________________________
> From: Peter C. <[email protected]>
> Sent: 01 December 2018 00:15
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [ovirt-users] cluster 4 pc's for more scanning power?
>
> Hello and sorry for the ignorance behind this question. I've been reading
> about various scale out, "hyper convergence" solutions and want to ask this
> about oVirt.
>
> I do vulnerability scanning on my company's assets. I do it from an
> obsolete laptop that was given to me. The load goes over 13 sometimes, and
> the scans take a long time.
>
> If I built an oVirt cluster from 4 or 5 desktop pc's, build  VM to run
> OpenVAS, would the cpu load demanded by the scanning be spread accross the
> 3-4 hosts, not inlcuding the management host, and therby give my scans more
> CPU power?
>
> If not oVirt, is there another project that would be better suited to what
> I'm trying to achieve?
>
> Qualifiers:
> -I'm not asking if this is the best way to get high-load scanning done.
> I'm just asking if I'll get the combined power from the cpu cores of all
> the host machines. The scanning jobs thread already.
> -I know it would probably be more efficient to get a powerful multi core
> workstation or server to do this. That is not my question.
> -The pc's are perfectly good, they are just not being used and won't be
> used for anything else.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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