<html><head></head><body>Hi Mikhail,<br>
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Thank you for your suggestion.<br>
Have you had any performance issues with freenas? It has been mentioned on some blogs that freenas might have performance issues. Not sure why.<br>
A clean Centos with NFS sounds ok also. What do you do if you need snapshots of data? Lvm snapshots?<br>
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Alex<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On December 23, 2016 5:08:42 PM EET, "Краснобаев Михаил" <milo1@ya.ru> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Hi,</div><div> </div><div>it mainly depends on the budget. I can give you some advice from my own experience:</div><div> </div><div>SMB systems from QNAP or any other vendor don't cope well with the load that OVirt generates (simultaneous access), because they are usually built on slow drives.</div><div>Using 15K drives helps a bit. I have a Centos machine that is used only as a file storage (NFS, 4x15K drives in raid5).</div><div> </div><div>I would suggest trying to built a Freenas machine on NL-SAS drives + SSD cache. In my opinion it would the most cost efficient decision.</div><div> </div><div>Best regards,</div><div> </div><div>MIkhail</div><div> </div><div>23.12.2016, 15:53, "rightkicktech.gmail.com" <rightkicktech@gmail.com>:</div><blockquote type="cite">Hi all,<br /><br />I am thinking to setup an environment with oVirt and centralized storage using a NAS that supports NFS and iSCSI.<br /><br />The setup will be used to host approx 20 VMs. The VMs will be
running critical services and not for testing. I have seen several from QNAP, iXsystems (freenas mini), ...<br />What NAS would you recommend for this setup?<br /><br />Thanx,<br />Alex<br />--<br />Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.,<p>_______________________________________________<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></p></blockquote><div> </div><div> </div><div>-- </div><div>С уважением, Краснобаев Михаил.</div><div> </div><div> </div></blockquote></div><br>
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