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. > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/S5WBOBNB6IRXWKIDITYIGGR6NUYMYSFM/ > To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to:- > http://leedsbeckett.ac.uk/disclaimer/email/ >
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