<br>We had to put oVirt work on hold when F17 would not work on the target hardware. A bug with SAS controllers and grub.<br><br>Once F18 is out we will take another look.<br><br>For now I'm working on using Foreman with libvirt, but I also need to work on Ceph support there as well.<br>
<br>Thanks, JOSH<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Ayal Baron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abaron@redhat.com" target="_blank">abaron@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Josh,<br>
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> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Itamar Heim < <a href="mailto:iheim@redhat.com">iheim@redhat.com</a> ><br>
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> On 09/23/2012 05:33 PM, Josh Logan wrote:<br>
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> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Itamar Heim < <a href="mailto:iheim@redhat.com">iheim@redhat.com</a><br>
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> <mailto: <a href="mailto:iheim@redhat.com">iheim@redhat.com</a> >> wrote:<br>
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> On 09/22/2012 08:58 AM, Josh Logan wrote:<br>
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> I'm currently setting up an ovirt cluster and so far it looks<br>
> good. I<br>
> like the integration with Foreman <a href="http://theforeman.org/" target="_blank">http://theforeman.org/</a> .<br>
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> I would like to use Ceph / rbd for my storage. I saw some<br>
> mention of<br>
> patches coming in May, but I did not find any new posts.<br>
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> What is the status of this work? Is there some patches I can<br>
> try out?<br>
> I have a working Ceph cluster and a working ovirt cluster, I<br>
> just need a<br>
> way to bring them together.<br>
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> Thanks, JOSH<br>
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> I don't remember any active work on this right now (for sure nothing<br>
> like the gluster integration being done).<br>
> but iiuc, ceph provides posixfs support - did you try creating a<br>
> posixfs based storage domain?<br>
> (you would need a "full" host (not ovirt-node) to install ceph<br>
> client components on).<br>
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> Thanks,<br>
> Itamar<br>
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> I am doing my work on Fedora 17 hosts, not ovirt-node, since I know<br>
> this<br>
> will need more OS support.<br>
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> There are a few different Ceph filesystems. But the posix based one<br>
> is<br>
> the least ready for production. The rbd filesystem is integrated into<br>
> qemu and libvirt is the most suited for VM images.<br>
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> Are the Gluster patches available? I would like to see what that<br>
> feature looks like and if I can modify them for Ceph.<br>
> If there is a better filesystem to investigate please let me know.<br>
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> Thanks, JOSH<br>
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> gluster as a native storage domain (rather than posixfs) is still in<br>
> reviews (and has patches only for vdsm side).<br>
> <a href="http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/" target="_blank">http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/</a> 6856/<br>
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> you can also use NFS in the meantime if relevant for ceph.<br>
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> Thanks for the pointer. I'll follow that and see what I learn.<br>
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> The vdsm side may be similar since both are network disk device.<br>
> There are only 2 steps needed to start up a VM with rbd.<br>
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> qemu-img create -f rbd rbd:data/host1 10G<br>
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> Then to start the image for qemu add -drive<br>
> file=rbd:data/host1,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw<br>
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> or within libvirt:<br>
> <disk type='network' device='disk'><br>
> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/><br>
> <source protocol='rbd' name='data/host1'/><br>
> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/><br>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05'<br>
> function='0x0'/><br>
> </disk><br>
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> So the steps are simple, and maybe Gluster is more complex then I<br>
> should use as an example.<br>
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</div></div>Have you followed up on this?<br>
Do you need more pointers?<br>
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Regards,<br>
Ayal.<br>
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> Thanks, JOSH<br>
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