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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You can have different cluster policy’s at least, don’t know what other benefits there are however as I haven’t noticed any.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></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"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> users-bounces@ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Groten, Ryan<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 18, 2015 01:59 PM<br><b>To:</b> users@ovirt.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [ovirt-users] Benefits of Cluster separation<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'>We’re running into some performance problems stemming from having too many Hosts/VMs/Disks running from the same Datacenter/Cluster. Because of that I’m looking into splitting the DC into multiple separate ones with different Hosts/Storage.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'>But I’m a little confused what the benefit of separating hosts into clusters achieves. Can someone please explain what the common use cases are? Since all the clusters in a DC seem to need to see the same storage, I don’t think it would help my situation anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'>Ryan <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>