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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:blue'>Nope in fact I followed the guide and found CTDB works quite well. I am just trying to figure out the benefit because that would be another component to consider in the architecture.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Sahina Bose [mailto:sabose@redhat.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 03, 2015 4:09 AM<br><b>To:</b> Groten, Ryan; users@ovirt.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ovirt-users] Help understanding Gluster in oVirt<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 01/28/2015 08:59 AM, Groten, Ryan wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic , sans-serif","serif"'>I was planning on making a Gluster Data domain to test, and found some great information on this page: <a href="http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/05/ovirt-3-4-glusterized/">http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/05/ovirt-3-4-glusterized/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic , sans-serif","serif"'>The article the author uses the CTDB service for VIP failover. Is it possible/recommended to not do this, and just create a gluster volume on all the hosts in a cluster, then create the Gluster data domain as localhost:<gluster_vol>?</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><br>Theoretically, it should work - if you make sure that you have a replica 3 gluster volume spread across 3 nodes, and these 3 nodes are your compute nodes as well - you should be fine without CTDB setup for failover and mounting as localhost.<br><br>But I've not tried this to recommend it. Maybe if others have tried it, they can chime in?<br><br>Btw, is there any reason you do not want to set up CTDB?<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic , sans-serif","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic , sans-serif","serif"'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic , sans-serif","serif"'>Ryan</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ThTh<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Users mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org">Users@ovirt.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>