<p dir="ltr">Look for the "All in one" documentation. While Ovirt is designed for large scale, multiple machine environments, it also works well as a single machine host with a spiffy web GUI for management.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 29, 2014 10:22 AM, "Derek Atkins" <<a href="mailto:warlord@mit.edu">warlord@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
<br>
> I have multiple hosts tied to a single ovirt head and some standalone<br>
> head/host combo systems.<br>
><br>
> It works. VMWare should be worried. They should also be porting their<br>
> windows only management console to web GUI as fast as possible.<br>
><br>
> One Issue solved in next release is integration with IPA. 3.4 broke<br>
> something working in 3.2. 3.5 is in pre-release and is fixed. It allows<br>
> authenticated users to fully control their VMs power up and down and<br>
> provision new ones from templates up to their usage limits.<br>
><br>
> The back end is KVM and is rock solid. Memory sharing and thin provision<br>
> storage are excellent.<br>
<br>
I was looking at migrating to oVirt (I currently run vmware-server). My<br>
main complaint about oVirt is its Master/Slave methodology. I currently<br>
have a single box that I'd like to run as both the admin platform and<br>
the VM host (and also a few other services on the host platform), but as<br>
far as I could tell there was no way to configure oVirt this way. Maybe<br>
it's changed in the past few years since I last looked?<br>
<br>
Basically right now I have one big server with lots of disk, memory, and<br>
CPU (granted, acquired ~4-5 years ago, but still viable for my use). I<br>
don't want to replace hardware when what I have "works". Although I<br>
would kind of like to freshen the software on it, as the current system<br>
is a little long in the tooth.<br>
<br>
-derek<br>
--<br>
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