Hi Indivar,

I did understand your question correctly, and I suggested the solution for your use case. If you are starting a new oVirt setup, just configure gluster nodes separately, create a volume for engine and share over nfs, then install oVirt hosted engine on one of the nodes and use nfs as the storage. Once engine is up add other oVirt nodes to engine and finally create a new gluster only cluster and add gluster nodes to it to manage gluster volumes.

Do note that none of the above would be considered recommend environment for oVirt, a better solution would be to use gluster replica 3 arbiter 1 with arbiter on one of the ovirt nodes. You can configure different network for gluster and oVirt management so that gluster uses 10g while oVirt uses 1g nic.

Regards,

HSA

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 7:17 PM Indivar Nair <indivar.nair@techterra.in> wrote:

Hi Hesham, 

Sorry, I think I wasn't clear.

We are not trying to set up HCI.

(We have two server hardware allocated as dedicated Gluster Nodes. And a few server hardware allocated as ovirt nodes.)

We want to the ovirt nodes to use the Gluster Storage as an NFS Storage.

Regards,

Indivar Nair

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 8:48 PM Hesham Ahmed <hsahmed@gmail.com> wrote:

Create a new Cluster in oVirt and disable it's "Virt Service" while
enabling the "Gluster Service". Then add the gluster nodes to this
Cluster and you will be able to manage them using oVirt without using
them for virtualization.

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 5:43 PM Indivar Nair <indivar.nair@techterra.in> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> We would like to set up a 2 node mirrored Gluster Storage using the ovirt installation tools, but use it as an NFS storage.
>
> We want to do this for 2 reasons -
>
> 1. We have a high-speed link between both the Gluster Nodes which we would like to use for brick replication rather than ovirt node's 1G link
> 2. We have fast SSD disks on the ovirt nodes which we would like to use for local NFS Caching (FS Caching) on the VM Images.
>
> In short, we would like to manage Gluster stroage using the ovirt web interface, but access the Gluster storage as an NFS Server.
>
> How can we do this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Indivar Nair
>
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