[Users] Guests accessing multiple host disks in oVirt

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Fri Jun 1 14:34:22 UTC 2012


On 05/31/2012 05:12 PM, Oded Ben Ozer wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to evaluate ovrit as a possible virtualization solution for
> my datacenter .
> I need  some of my VMs to have access to multiple disks installed in the
> host  so that the RAID  will be configured in the guest level, this way
> I can optimize redundancy and  /IO performance per guest. (raid0 vs
> raid10 vs raid 5) - this would be  similar to what EC2/Openstack
> call ephemeral storage.
> Is this possible in oVirt  ?
> A less desirable solution would be to create different RAID arrays in
> the host and place VM images on different arrays, is that possible ?
>   ( according to the pdf guide this is possible in RHEL but not in oVirt
> node ?!? )

can you please elaborate a bit more on your use case?
specifcially, are you planning on using shared storage 
(fc/iscsi/nfs/gluster/etc.) or local storage of each hypervisor?



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