[ovirt-users] Re: non-ovirt node as gluster node

On Tue, 2018-11-06 at 13:47 +0100, Karli Sjöberg wrote: On Tue, 2018-11-06 at 12:36 +0000, Tony Brian Albers wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I have 3 machines that I'd like to test oVirt/gluster on. > > The idea is that I want two of them to be oVirt nodes and the third > > to > > run the oVirt engine. > > They all have 8 hdd's, and I'd like to use these in gluster for > > storing > > the vm images. (on all 3 machines) > > So,  > > machine1 is a gluster server with oVirt engine installed > > machine2 is a gluster server and oVirt node > > machine3 is a gluster server and oVirt node > > Is this doable? > > Usually you´d want to deploy oVirt/Gluster "hyperconverged"[*] with > three machines. Hyperconverged means that the servers are deployed > both > for compute and storage at the same time, and the engine is a VM in > it´s own cluster (it doesn´t have to be a separate server). > > Or is this something you really don´t want? If so, why? > > [*]: > > https://ovirt.org/documentation/gluster-hyperconverged/Gluster_Hyperc > onverged_Guide/ > > /K > Machine1 only has a very limited amount of RAM, so it's not usable as a node. And I'd like to keep the engine outside, at least for now. /tony -- --  Tony Albers Systems Architect Systems Director, National Cultural Heritage Cluster Royal Danish Library, Victor Albecks Vej 1, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. Tel: +45 2566 2383 / +45 8946 2316