oVirt questions
2020-06-18 by: David White
From: David White ------------------------------------------------------ I'm reading through the documentation at https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/, and I see 5 different ways oVirt can be deployed. I'm looking for a way to manage multiple physical servers from 1 interface, and be able to deploy new VMs (or delete VMs) as necessary. I'm trying to figure out what the difference is between an oVirt Node and the oVirt Engine, and how the engine differs from the Manager. oVirt Engine requirements look to be a minimum of 4GB RAM and 2CPUs. oVirt Manager oVirt Nodes, on the other hand, require only 2GB RAM. I think that the Engine and "Manager" are the same thing. Is this correct? Additionally, I *think* that a node is just a physical server. So if I install an oVirt Node onto a server with let's say 8GB physical RAM, do I have to allocate 2GB of RAM to oVirt (meaning I only have 6GB RAM available to the VMs)? How does that work? https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/installing_ovirt_as_a_standalone_manager_with_local_databases/#Installing_Hosts_for_RHV_SM_localDB_deploy -- David White