[ovirt-users]Re: Blog Post - Using Ceph Only Storage For oVirt Datacenter by Sandro Bonazzola – Wednesday 14 July 2021

Well, if I can put my $0.02 worth in... What I've been trying to do is set up an oVirt cluster (v4.5.X) to use a Ceph (Quincey) cluster as the back-end via iSCSI. One thing I found was that up-to-date, relevant information from both the Ceph-side *and* the oVirt side on how to do this was... hard to find, not explained very well, and often out of date (like this relevant Blog post, if it is now out of date, and based on the posts of this thread that is what it appears to be) - this also applies to pre-installing / not pre-installing OpenVSwitch (see my other thread from today). So I've been experimenting in a test environment (using Rocky Linux - initially v9 but now v8.6), tearing down and re-building (physical) boxes, and making notes for myself as I go. And, as may be implied from this and my other thread from today, the types of problems and issues I'm encountering are relatively trivial and easily answered **once I can get on to someone who knows** (those issues that aren't "self-inflicted", of course). And for what it is worth, I am extremely grateful for the help I've received today - thank you all! So if people are talking about doco, etc, then this might be worth considering as well (ie, how to go about doing what I've been doing). I'm reluctant to write this up myself for a number of reasons, including (but not limited to) the issue of maintainability, the fact that I'm not experienced enough with oVirt to hold myself out as an "expert", and because of an incident in the past where I ended up taking a lot of flack that wasn't really my fault (the old "once bitten, twice shy"). "Anyway, it's just a thought - you all have a good day." - Beau Of The Fifth Column Cheers Dulux-Oz