Hello,
Is there documentation anywhere for adding a 4th compute-only host to an existing HCI
cluster?
I did the following earlier today:
- Installed RHEL 8.4 onto the new (4th) host
- Setup an NFS share on the host
- Attached the NFS share to oVirt as a new storage domain
- I then turned the NFS share into a "backup domain"
- Once that was done, I installed ovirt-release44.rpm, followed by some ovirt packages:
- yum install
https://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release44.rpm
- yum install cockpit-ovirt-dashboard vdsm-gluster ovirt-host
- I then logged into the oVirt Manager Web UI, navigated to Hosts, and clicked on New
- I successfully added the new host to the cluster
Once this was all done, load average on all 3 of my original HCI nodes started to go
through the roof.
I've seen servers' load average go through the roof before when NFS shares are
down, so I suspect that something happened to the NFS share when I went to add the host as
a compute node.
In an effort to get things stabilized, I wound up yanking the new host out of oVirt, as
well as the NFS share, at which point things did stabilize again.
My goal here:
- Setup the host as a compute-only host (don't participate in the gluster cluster)
- Setup the NFS share for backup purposes
Writing this email and reviewing my bash history, I think one of the places I went wrong
was I installed vdsm-gluster. I don't think I need that, do I?
Is what I'm trying to do possible?
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