From Ryan.Groten at stantec.com Tue Aug 18 16:58:51 2015 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7942897334933773046==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Groten, Ryan To: users at ovirt.org Subject: [ovirt-users] Benefits of Cluster separation Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 20:58:48 +0000 Message-ID: --===============7942897334933773046== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable --_000_c8b4ff80e80a44648b7fc68991990e74CD1001M21corpads_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable We're running into some performance problems stemming from having too many = =3D Hosts/VMs/Disks running from the same Datacenter/Cluster. Because of that = =3D I'm looking into splitting the DC into multiple separate ones with differen= =3D t Hosts/Storage. But I'm a little confused what the benefit of separating hosts into cluster= =3D s achieves. Can someone please explain what the common use cases are? Sin= =3D ce all the clusters in a DC seem to need to see the same storage, I don't t= =3D hink it would help my situation anyway. Thanks, Ryan --_000_c8b4ff80e80a44648b7fc68991990e74CD1001M21corpads_ Content-Type: text/html; charset=3D"us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

We’re running into some pe= =3D rformance problems stemming from having too many Hosts/VMs/Disks running fr= =3D om the same Datacenter/Cluster. Because of that I’m looking int= =3D o splitting the DC into multiple separate ones with different Hosts/Storage.= =3D

But I’m a little confused = =3D what the benefit of separating hosts into clusters achieves. Can some= =3D one please explain what the common use cases are? Since all the clust= =3D ers in a DC seem to need to see the same storage, I don’t think it would= =3D help my situation anyway.

Thanks,

Ryan

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