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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m in at the deep end…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Looking for some advice on if this is possible – and what version I should try I with if so.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are a heavily VMware oriented company… but I am trying to get RHEV/oVirt in the door. Honestly I would prefer oVirt, but if they insist on enterprise support I go to Redhat.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So I have had a play with VMware VSAN and know how it works. I am trying to more or less replicate this setup using open source.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So VSAN uses 3 or more ESXi nodes, with local harddisks as the storage medium as a virtual SAN. The SAN performance is quite high as you put at least 1 SSD in each node.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What is nice is you don’t have the NAS element here. VMs are on the local storage, which is partially SSD, so performance is quite good.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I went to a Redhat presentation on Redhat storage and GlusterFS and basically this acts as a big software defined NAS which does some pretty cool things, but that’s not exactly what I need.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would like to build oVirt on top of CentOS Oss… that have local storage in them that is distributed and redundant in the event of a node failure.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And I probably need to try and build this in a lab under Fusion on my Mac Book pro to begin with anyway (that bit I’m farily confident with) and if I get that working can probably get some older kit to try it out for real as a PoC to few
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<p class="MsoNormal">So, I’ve set up oVirt before that should be ok, I haven’t setup Gluster is there any documents that would help me down this road and make sure I start out using the best version.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any advice or pointers would be gratefully received.<o:p></o:p></p>
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