<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Back to trying out the latest oVirt with latest Gluster, and wanting to do a self-hosted Engine setup. I am reading the instructions I found on the following pages:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Self_Hosted_Engine_Gluster_Support" class="">http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Self_Hosted_Engine_Gluster_Support</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.ovirt.org/QA:TestCase_Hosted_Engine_External_Gluster_Support" class="">http://www.ovirt.org/QA:TestCase_Hosted_Engine_External_Gluster_Support</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have the requisite Gluster volume all ready to go:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">[root@ovirt-node-01 ~]# gluster volume info engine</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Volume Name: engine</div><div class="">Type: Distributed-Replicate</div><div class="">Volume ID: 974c9da4-b236-4fc1-b26a-645f14601db8</div><div class="">Status: Started</div><div class="">Number of Bricks: 2 x 3 = 6</div><div class="">Transport-type: tcp</div><div class="">Bricks:</div><div class="">Brick1: ovirt-node-01:/gluster_brick1/engine_brick</div><div class="">Brick2: ovirt-node-02:/gluster_brick2/engine_brick</div><div class="">Brick3: ovirt-node-03:/gluster_brick3/engine_brick</div><div class="">Brick4: ovirt-node-01:/gluster_brick3/engine_brick</div><div class="">Brick5: ovirt-node-02:/gluster_brick4/engine_brick</div><div class="">Brick6: ovirt-node-03:/gluster_brick5/engine_brick</div><div class="">Options Reconfigured:</div><div class="">server.allow-insecure: on</div><div class="">storage.owner-gid: 36</div><div class="">storage.owner-uid: 36</div><div class="">auth.allow: *</div><div class="">network.ping-timeout: 10</div><div class="">cluster.server-quorum-type: server</div><div class="">cluster.quorum-type: auto</div><div class="">network.remote-dio: enable</div><div class="">cluster.eager-lock: enable</div><div class="">performance.stat-prefetch: off</div><div class="">performance.io-cache: off</div><div class="">performance.read-ahead: off</div><div class="">performance.quick-read: off</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The one question I have is, should it be mounted or not? I currently do have it mounted on each host (example off one of my oVirt hosts):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">localhost:/engine 1.9T 65M 1.9T 1% /data/ovirt/engine</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Will this interfere with the running of "hosted-engine —deploy”? Kindly advise.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Will</div></body></html>