<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">The host you choose is used to make the initial mount, test the volume, and create some initial directory structure and files for the backend. Doesn’t much matter in my experience, but can be useful if you want to avoid doing the work on a busy host.<div><br></div><div>Once it’s been added to the cluster, it gets mounted on all your host nodes and doesn’t matter anymore.</div><div><br></div><div> -Darrell</div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Maurice James <<a href="mailto:midnightsteel@msn.com">midnightsteel@msn.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div dir="ltr">Can someone explain what is the purpose of "Use Host" is when creating a new storage domain?<br><br>If the NFS host is remote and not part of the cluster, why do I have to choose a single cluster host to attach it to.<br>Does this mean that if that particular host gos offline (turned off) that other cluster member will no longer be able to access that nfs storage?<br></div>_______________________________________________<br>Users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org">Users@ovirt.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>