<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>