Hi!
I'd like to share a few things regarding installation(and use) of oVirt node on thin
provisioned LUN's. I had problems here, perhaps someone else have noticed
similarities?
I use ZFS and comstar on solaris to provide volume's and LUN`S to the fibre channel
SAN. When I create a thin provisioned LUN in comstar it uses the format qcow2, to be able
to "fool" the OS that installs on it about the real size of the LUN.
This seem to work fine with normal OS installation, but I'm doubtful about oVist node.
I had issues, especially when I try to reinstall on the same LUN. During reinstallation it
seems that the installation process tries to "clean" the LUN with dd
if=/dev/zero , and that seem to be difficult.
I've run the same cleaning process on different LUN's provided with the same qcow2
format with live media, to see what happens.
First time it seems to go fine, but after one cleaning and another partitioning with LVM
the dd seems to get stuck. My feeling is that the LVM partitioning seems to get stuck on
the LUN and difficult to get rid of...? Perhaps due to the qcow2 format...?
Could this have something to do with "nested qcow"? qcow on qcow...?"
So, when I get to this stage, the LUN becomes unusable for oVirt node installation. I
don't know yet about installing other software, like a normal linux os...
The only oVist node's I've been able to try this on is Fc16-based, since the Fc17
have problems with the qlogic HBA's that I use in my SAN. Fc 17 doesn't load the
qlogic firmware image, which makes it impossible to install on the LUN's visible
through the qlogic HBA's.
So, anyone that can comments, views, other perspectives, etc, on these subjects are
wellcome to do so...
Rgrds Johan