Re: [ovirt-users] planning ovirt for production

On 07/16/2014 06:46 PM, Demeter Tibor wrote: > Hi, > > We have a production environment with KVM+centos6 and we want to switch > to ovirt. > At this moment we have 12 VM on three independent server. > This VMs uses the local disks of servers, we don't have a central > storage. > > currently we have for ovirt > > - Two Dell R710 with 128 gigs of ram. > - A third dell server for ovirt-engine. > - four 1 gb/sec NICs/ server. > - Smart GB switch > > we would like make an ovirt environment with > > - clusterized, redundant filesystem, data loss protection > - If a host goes to down the VMs could made a restart on the remain host > - LACP/bonding (mode 6) for fast I/O beetwen gluster hosts, we don't > have 10Gbe nics > - 8 TB of disk capacity for VMs > > we don't want: > > - using hw raid on servers, because we need free disk tray for more > capacity > > My questions. > > - Which glusterfs method is the best for us for performance? vijay?

> - Can I make a real "performance" disk i/o by 4-4 NICs ? Or I need 10 > Gbe nic for this? > - How much disk need for good redundancy/performance? 4/server or > 2/server ? > - What will the weak point our project? make sure to use gluster with replica 3, which needs 3 servers? maybe use hosted engine to remove need for dedicated server for it?