[ovirt-users] Gluster storage question

Hello list, Just wanted to get your opinion on my ovirt home lab setup. While this is not a production setup I would like it to run relatively reliably so please tell me if the following storage configuration is likely to result in corruption or just bat s**t insane. I have a 3 node hosted engine setup, VM data store and engine data store are both replica 3 gluster volumes (one brick on each host). I do not want to run all 3 hosts 24/7 due to electricity costs, I only power up the larger hosts (2 Dell R710's) when I need additional resources for VM's. I read about using CTDB and floating/virtual IP's to allow the storage mount point to transition between available hosts but after some thought decided to go about this another, simpler, way: I created a common hostname for the storage mount points: gfs-data and gfs-engine On each host I edited /etc/hosts file to have these hostnames resolve to each hosts IP i.e. on host1 gfs-data & gfs-engine --> host1 IP on host2 gfs-data & gfs-engine --> host2 IP etc. In ovirt engine each storage domain is mounted as gfs-data:/data and gfs-engine:/engine My thinking is that this way no matter which host is up and acting as SPM it will be able to mount the storage as its only dependent on that host being up. I changed gluster options for server-quorum-ratio so that the volumes remain up even if quorum is not met, I know this is risky but its just a lab setup after all. So, any thoughts on the /etc/hosts method to ensure the storage mount point is always available? Is data corruption more or less inevitable with this setup? Am I insane ;) ? Thanks,