Re: [ovirt-users] Sizing the master storage domain

On 09/18/2014 02:27 PM, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: > Hi, > > I know Itamar explained that the notion of master storage domain will > disappear in some releases. > But now, with a 3.4 I'm installing, I was wondering : > > - on my other oVirt setups, I started with one big (iSCSI) LUN, which is > the master, and stored as many VMs I could > - when space came to miss, I added another LUN, the another... > - when I have to do some maintenance (grow, disable, other...) on a LUN, > I can move my VM disks amongst the normal storage domains. When Empty, I > can switch them off, add others, and so on > > The only one I can not play with is the master one. > I came to think that I had no benefice storing anything on the master > storage domain, and use only the normal storage domains. > > And then, I came to think I had no reason to dedicate a huge LUN for the > master. > > Ok, but according to you, what is the minimum reasonable size for a > master storage domain? > you should be able to move master domain to maint (deactivate, not detach) as well (full or empty). engine will just configure another storage domain as master iirc.