Re: [ovirt-devel] DRBD Integration with oVirt

Maybe I'm being daft, but I'm missing something basic here. What's the end goal? A DRBD Storage Domain in oVirt?

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Hayley Swimelar <hayley(a)linbit.com&gt; wrote: > Hello all, > > A DRBD integration into oVirt is currently being planned. > > DRBD provides replicated, highly available block storage. For those > unfamiliar with DRBD more information can be found here: > https://www.drbd.org/en/comp/drbd-linux-driver > > DRBD 9 is the latest version of DRBD and interacts with DRBD Manage which > is a daemon exposed via a D-Bus api. More information can be found here: > https://www.drbd.org/en/comp/drbdmanage > > DRBD Manage handles the creation, assignment, etc. of DRBD volumes and is > the interface through which Cinder manages DRBD. > > We are looking for advice on how best to have oVirt communicate with DRBD > Manage and we have come to two options: > > 1) Use Cinder. Although we are integrated into Cinder, there are concerns > about the need to set up a complete Cinder instance to provide access to > DRBD. > > 2) The alternative to Cinder would be to have the oVirt Engine communicate > directly to DRBD Manage via D-Bus. > > Any advice on the best way to achieve this would be much appreciated. > > -- > Hayley Swimelar > LINBIT | Keeping the Digital World Running > DRBD — Corosync — Pacemaker > +1-503-573-1262 x212 > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > >