[ovirt-users] oVirt selft-hosted with NFS on top gluster

[Yaniv Kaul]

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Abi Askushi <rightkicktech at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've playing with ovirt self hosted engine setup and I even use it to
> production for several VM. The setup I have is 3 server with gluster
> storage in replica 2+1 (1 arbiter).
> The data storage domain where VMs are stored is mounted with gluster
> through ovirt. The performance I get for the VMs is very low and I was
> thinking to switch and mount the same storage through NFS instead of
> glusterfs.
>

I don't see how it'll improve performance.
I suggest you share the gluster configuration (as well as the storage HW)
so we can understand why the performance is low.
Y.


>
> The only think I am hesitant is how can I ensure high availability of the
> storage when I loose one server? I was thinking to have at /etc/hosts sth
> like below:
>
> 10.100.100.1 nfsmount
> 10.100.100.2 nfsmount
> 10.100.100.3 nfsmount
>
> then use nfsmount as the server name when adding this domain through ovirt
> GUI.
> Are there any other more elegant solutions? What do you do for such cases?
> Note: gluster has the back-vol-file option which provides a lean way to
> have redundancy on the mount point and I am using this when mounting with
> glusterfs.
>
> Thanx
>
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