On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 4:40 PM Yuriy <ykhokhlov@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Nir!

This is Yuriy.

We agreed to continue the subject via email.

So the options are: 

1. Using Managed Block Storage (cinderlib) with a driver that supports NVMe/TCP. 

Lastest oVirt has the needed changes to configure this. Benny and I tested with Lightbits[1] driver in a 

virtualized environment. This is basically a POC that may work for you or not, or require more work

that you will have to do yourself since not much development is happening now in oVirt.

2. Using the devices via multipath

Legacy storage domains are based on multipath. It may be possible to use multipath on top of 

NVMe devices, and in this case they look like a normal LUN so you can create a storage domain

from such devices.

oVirt will not handle connections for you, and all the devices must be connected to all nodes at the

same time, just like FC/iSCSI LUNs. You will likely not get the performance benefit of NVMe/TCP.

3. Using host devices

If what you need is using some devices (which happen to be connected via be NVMe/TCP), maybe you

can attach them to a VM directly (using host devices). This gives the best possible performance but no

features (snapshots, backup, live migration, live storage migration, etc.)

[1] https://www.lightbitslabs.com/

Nir