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From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl@redhat.com> To: "Dave Neary" <dneary@redhat.com> Cc: users@ovirt.org, "Sahina Bose" <sabose@redhat.com>, "Simon Grinberg" <simon@redhat.com> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 6:35:56 PM Subject: Re: [Users] Package installation error
Simon?
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From: "Dave Neary" <dneary@redhat.com> To: "Sahina Bose" <sabose@redhat.com> Cc: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl@redhat.com>, users@ovirt.org Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 6:34:56 PM Subject: Re: [Users] Package installation error
Hi,
On 03/19/2013 05:24 AM, Sahina Bose wrote:
You are right - Gluster 3.4 is only required to manage gluster clusters.
Currently the question asked at setup is this :
"The engine can be configured to present the UI in three different application modes. virt [Manage virtualization only], gluster [Manage gluster storage only], and both [Manage virtualization as well as gluster storage]" where both is the default.
If this is confusing to the user, we can change this message. Suggestions?
I would either:
(a) put "Virt" as the default, or
I would go for this one, this keeps backwards compatibility. Is there an easy method to change this configuration later?
(b) remove this question entirely - if someone is installing oVirt, assume they want to manage virt. If someone is installing Gluster, have an option during the Gluster install to have the oVirt management console.
We do want people to get exposed to the Gluster option.
If someone wants to manage both their Gluster bricks and their virt with oVirt, I would make that a post-install option to oVirt - perhaps with an extra package to install (which would depend on the later version of Gluster).
Cheers, Dave.
On 03/19/2013 01:41 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
Hi,
On 03/19/2013 08:16 AM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
Now I am confused.... Do you or don't you need vdsm-gluster on your system?
Allow me to clarify.
There have been several messages from users since the oVirt 3.2 release asking why they need Gluster 3.4 pre-releases to run oVirt.
My understanding is that you don't need Gluster 3.4 unless you want to manage a Gluster cluster with oVirt.
So my question is: are we sure that we are not leading users wrong, and confusing them during the installation & set-up process?
Thanks, Dave.
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