There are plenty of other reasons to be running a single-host Hyperconverged deployment, in production. One of them is financial. Another is for small-scale production systems that don't have the space, finances, or other resources to run a 3-node system. Considering it a "toy" doesn't mean it isn't (or shouldn't be) a supported deployment.
Having a tested upgrade path from EL 7.x/Ovirt 4.3.x to EL 8 / Ovirt 4.4 running on a single system would be extremely useful in those situations. I do realize that any upgrade of a single-host system is rife with the dangers of a failed upgrade, and it requires downtime either way. However I feel an in-place (yum/dnf) path is "safer" than a "reinstall from scratch" path. So having a well-documented path would be ideal. Thanks! -derek PS: While I am LOOKING at expanding my 1-node system to 3, I don't see that happening any time soon. And even then, I would need to migrate my NFS storage to something more distributed like Gluster. So I suspect I would need to reinstall the self-hosted engine regardless to change its storage, and then I can migrate all existing VMs from NFS to Gluster. On Sat, September 26, 2020 9:00 am, tho...@hoberg.net wrote: > I can hear you saying: "You did understand that single node HCI is just a > toy, right?" > > For me the primary use of a single node HCI is adding some disaster > resilience in small server edge type scenarios, where a three node HCI > provides the fault tolerance: 3+1 with a bit of distance, warm or even > cold stand-by, potentially manual switch and reduced workload in case > disaster strikes. > > Of course, another 3nHCI would be better, but who gets that type of > budget, right? > > What I am trying say: If you want oVirt to gain market share, try to give > HCI more love. And while you're at it, try to make expanding from 1nHCI to > 3nHCI (and higher counts) a standard operational procedure to allow > expanding a disaster stand-by into a production setup, while the original > 3nHCI is being rebuilt. > > For me low-budget HCI is where oVirt has its biggest competitive advantage > against vSan and Nutanix, so please don't treat the HCI/gluster variant > like an unwanted child any more. > > In the mean-time OVA imports (from 4.3.10 exports) on my 4.4.2 1nHCI fail > again, which I'll report separately. > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org > 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/users@ovirt.org/message/QI3Z45SRJD72ZJIX6HZCVC7DVVSZCKUW/ > -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org 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/users@ovirt.org/message/5MMU7TOS2776IV72H75WMJTZCF7TAHDU/
