On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Joop <jvdwege@xs4all.nl> wrote:
On 1-12-2015 22:59, Gervais de Montbrun wrote:
Is it possible to setup the hypervisor hosts themselves as NFS servers to create Storage (I realize that this will play havoc with the HA). We do have an NFS server that we will be upgrading to add storage and faster drives, but I was thinking that I may be able to use the internal storage of the hypervisors themselves as a short term stopgap and then migrate vm's to the upgraded NFS server later. Will that even work, or will it break somehow?
As Nir pointed out its possible.
I'm using such a setup at home where a NAS provides NFS storage for hosted-engine and also iso/export/data domains for VMs. Besides that I have an NFS server on my host for VMs which need a bit of disk throughput, its got a nice SSD in it. Moving VM disks from the SSD storage domain to the 'slow' storage domain on the NAS and vice versa works fine.
Problem with these kind of setups is redundancy which is ofcourse non-existant :-)


Take care that up to and including RHEL 7 mounting exports provided by the localhost NFS-server can lead to deadlocks so it's not a recommended choice.
A loopback iSCSI target should be more reliable on this side.
http://linux-iscsi.org/wiki/Loopback
 
Regards,

Joop


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