Re: [Users] How to efficiently share templates between datacenters which have local storages?

On 11/19/2012 08:02 PM, Adam Tkáč wrote: > > Hello, > > I use oVirt 3.1.0. > > Does anyone have an idea how to efficiently share VM templates between > multiple datacenters which use local storages for VM images? I tried > two methods: > > 1. Add another cluster to "local storage datacenter" which failed with > oVirt error that this isn't allowed > 2. Tried to create new NFS data domain but this isn't possible because > oVirt interface allows me to create only NFS export or NFS ISO domains > (not data domain) > > So every time when I would like to use some template in other > datacenter, I have to export it to export domain and then import it in > other datacenter. This isn't optimal way because templates are > duplicated over datacenters. Duplication causes problems - when I want > to update template, I must update it and copy to all datacenters > again. And, of course, duplicated templates consume disk space. how did you envision doing this without consuming disk space? a shared NFS domain for the templates?

> > "Non-oVirt" solution, when I manually export part of local storage of > one datacenter with templates via NFS and then mount it in other > datacenters is also ok but I'm not sure if it will work.