[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt 4.5 and Gluster ; was Re: Re: oVirt 4.4 End Of Life

currently broken due to the lack of the packaging of a few collections on the gluster side. May I be so impertinent and ask for an ETA? :D We are planning on building a hyper-converged cluster from scratch because we planned and bought the hardware before the announcement from Red Hat. We're glad to hear that there are no plans to remove Gluster from oVirt. On 4/20/22 18:43, Sandro Bonazzola wrote: > > > Il giorno mer 20 apr 2022 alle ore 18:28 David White via Users > <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; ha scritto: > > Hi Sandro, > I thought I had read somewhere on the list a few weeks ago that > Gluster was having problems with 4.5 and that it wasn't going to > be supported. Did I misundersand? > > > Gluster ansible roles for deploying new hyperconverged setups are > currently broken due to the lack of the packaging of a few collections > on the gluster side. > They're working on it, I think they'll fix that soon. > For existing setups, upgrades should work just fine. About the support > for Gluster, the Gluster community didn't announce any planned EOL for > the project so as long as it's maintained there's no reason to remove > it from oVirt. > Downstream wise, RHGS announced EOL in 2024 so for RHV, Red Hat is > deprecating Gluster as storage to be used for storage domains. > This would mean the community should help testing Gluster with oVirt > to keep it working as Red Hat is lowering the effort on testing it. > > I recall a few months ago that the announcement was made to > deprecate Gluster anyway, but I don't think the original plan was > to remove support for it until later, but that due to some package > dependencies, it needed to go away in 4.5. > > > We had to drop the roles in oVirt Node due to broken dependencies but > that was fixed and it's back in for 4.5.0 GA. > > > I was hoping to get all of my storage migrated onto Synology > hardware later this year prior to upgraded to 4.5, but if Gluster > is still supported and will work, perhaps I should go ahead and > upgrade. > > I'm open to feedback. > Posting to the list, as I'm sure others are in the same scenario > as me. > > > Anyone who can provide feedback on this scenario? > > > Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com/> secure email. > > ------- Original Message ------- > On Wednesday, April 20th, 2022 at 11:07 AM, Sandro Bonazzola > <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > >> Hi, >> as usual, when a new oVirt release gets out, the previous one >> reaches the end of life. >> As of April 20th 2022 with oVirt 4.5.0 GA, oVirt 4.4 reached End >> Of Life, last release being 4.4.10.2 async release shipped live >> on March 03, 2022. >> Please upgrade to 4.5 as soon as practical in order to get >> further security and bug fixes updates. >> >> Thanks, >> -- >> >> Sandro Bonazzola >> >> MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV >> >> Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> >> >> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com >> >> <https://www.redhat.com/> >> >> *Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no >> need to answer this email out of your office hours. >> * >> * >> >> * > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/2MVLQLQBA6V... > > > > -- > > Sandro Bonazzola > > MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV > > Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> > > sbonazzo(a)redhat.com > > <https://www.redhat.com/> > > *Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need > to answer this email out of your office hours. > * > * > > * > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/AXVD3ZHED7A...