Your nodes should have separate drives for node image. The installer will expect empty block device for gluster setup. I would do a separate array for OS and storage.
Most of your node specific questions I think can be cleared up if you think of the storage as being networked storage. Even though the nodes are acting as storage they are gluster clients mounting the shares. If you create a vm the storage doesn’t go to one specific node. Since the data is mounted over network you can run vms from any node.
Hey folks,
I am looking at setting up a hyperconverged cluster with 3 nodes (and
oVirt 4.3). Before setting up I have some generic questions that I would
love to get hints or even an answer on.
First off, the Servers are outfittet with 24 (SSD) drives each in a
HW-RAID. Due to wear-leveling and speed I am looking at RAID10. So I
would end up with one giant sda device.
a) Partitioning
Using oVirt node installer which will use the full size of /dev/sda is
this still the right solution to Hyperconverged given the gluster issue?
If I understood it correctly gluster is using empty drives or partitions
so a fully utilized drive is of no use here. Does oVirt node installer
have a hyperconverged/ gluster mode?
b) Storage Location
In this 3 node cluster, creating a VM on node01 will the data for node01
always end up in the local node01 server?
c) Starting VMs
Can a VM be migrated or launched from node03 if the data resides on
node01 and node02 (copies 2 with arbiter).
d) Efficiency / High IO Load
If node01 has high IO Load would additional data be loaded from the
other node which has the copy to even the load? I am aware Virtuozzo
does this.
e) Storage Network dies
What would happen with node01, node02 and node03 are operational but
only the storage network dies (frontend is still alive as are the nodes).
f) external isci/ FreeNAS
We have a FreeNAS system with tons of space and fast network
connectivity. Can oVirt handle storage import like remote iscsi target
and run VMs on the ovirt nodes but store data there?
Thank you for your time to clear this up.
I have found many approaches out there that either are old (oVirt 3) or
even contradict themselves (talk about RAID level...)
Cheers!
-Christian.
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