[ovirt-users] Re: How do I share a disk across multiple VMs?

Thank you Gianluca for your honest assessment. Now if only you'd put that on the home page of oVirt, or better yet, used the opportunity to change things. Yes, after what I know today, I should not have started with oVirt on Gluster, but unfortunately HCI is exactly the most attractive grassroots use case and the biggest growth opportunity for oVirt. AFAIK there is no competition out there. If there was, I probably would have jumped ship already, as attached (habit dependent) as I am to CentOS. In theory oVirt could start with single node HCI, and then go to 3nHCI to gain resilience. That step is already crucial (ideally witha 2nHCI base on a warm storage standby) and currently easy with Gluster, but "not supported" (with no warning or explanation that I could remember) by oVirt. Whatever the reason, it is not at all obvious to the newcomer, nor should it be unsurmountable to my understanding. And as things go on and you're expanding some clusters, there is a natural tendency to go towards dedicated storage say after reaching dual digits on HCI nodes, because it offer better price/performance and controls. Again, that transition should be "organic" of not seamless, with migration of VMs and their disks, perhaps not live, even if gaps there should be closable, too. Nobody else can do that, not VMware, not Nutanix, nor Proxmox. And the cloud guys aren't offering anything right there, even if they probably should, if only to make sure that any such grass-roots projects can be fork lifted easily into their clouds, once their end product takes off. IMHO this sort of opportunity needs serious seed money, organic growth from the community and direct revenues obviously haven't done it yet. But letting things just go on as they do now, I consider a death knell to oVirt. Kind regards, Thomas