[Ovirt-devel] only seeing one NIC in network device editor

[Scott Seago]

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Scott Seago wrote:
> Justin Clacherty wrote:
>> Scott Seago wrote:
>>> Yes, this is the way it's currently set up to work. In the 2-or-more 
>>> network use csae the admin network is intended for node 
>>> communication only.
>> Ok, that makes sense.  What about storage?  I was under the 
>> impression that the san could sit on the admin network.  Is this the 
>> case or must it be on the guest network?
>>
> The san is fine on the admin network, as the node mounts the storage 
> -- it's exposed to the VM as a local disk.
>> Doesn't this make cobbler somewhat redundant?  If I set up a distro 
>> in cobbler, I can't actually use it...  Should cobbler be made 
>> available to the guest network too?  Though that would probably mean 
>> that the admin node would have to serve dns and dhcp to the guest 
>> network which wouldn't be ideal.
>>
> Yes, this is an ongoing point of discussion here.  Originally it was 
> all on one network so there weren't any cobbler issues here. Cobbler 
> images work fine as-is, since the iso gets mounted as a local disk for 
> the guest. For cobbler profiles to work cobbler would have to listen 
> on the guest network as well -- or really on any network that a guest 
> might be on, since it's possible to set up oVirt with more than 2 
> networks on the nodes. I'm not sure about dhcp/dns for the guest 
> network -- we could certainly set it up to do that, but I'd imagine 
> that in most cases your guest network is your existing public (or 
> intranet) network that's already served by existing dhcp/dns. Of 
> course if the guests are coming up on a network that already has an 
> external pxe server you might have other problems using the cobbler 
> instance for pxe booting guests.
>
> Maybe Hugh or someone else has other thoughts on how to handle guest 
> pxe/provisioning -- it's something we're still discussing.
>> Storage is another issue for me at the moment, I set up an iscsi 
>> partition on my san, then added it under storage (on the admin 
>> network, but tried it on both admin and guest) but it just shows up 
>> pending.  There's an odd error in the tasks list which is something 
>> along the lines of it returning 255 (-1 I guess)....Is there a 
>> problem with connecting to iscsi at the moment?
> There shouldn't be any problems with iscsi -- it's been recently 
> working. If you get us more information on the task error -- including 
> the relevant contents of /var/log/ovirt-server/taskomatic.log we'll 
> look into it.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Justin.
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