Re: [ovirt-users] Dedicated NICs for gluster network

Hi Nicolas, what works for me in 3.6 is creating a new network for gluster within oVirt, marking it for gluster use only, optionally setting bonded interface upon NIC's that are dedicated for gluster traffic and providing it with an IP address without configuring a gateway, and then modifying /etc/hosts so that hostnames are resolvable between nodes. Every node should have two hostnames, one for ovirtmgmt network that is resolvable via DNS (or via /etc/hosts), and the other for gluster network that is resolvable purely via /etc/hosts (every node should contain entries for themselves and for each gluster node). Peers should be probed via their gluster hostnames, while ensuring that gluster peer status contains only addresses and hostnames that are dedicated for gluster on each node. Same goes for adding bricks, creating a volume etc. This way, no communication (except gluster one) should be allowed through gluster dedicated vlan. To be on the safe side, we can also force gluster to listen only on dedicated interfaces via transport.socket.bind-address option (haven't tried this one, will do). Separation of gluster (or in the future any storage network), live migration network, vm and management network is always a good thing. Perhaps, we could manage failover of those networks within oVirt, ie. in case lm network is down - use gluster network for lm and vice versa. Cool candidate for an RFE, but first we need this supported within gluster itself. This may prove useful when there is not enough NIC's available to do a bond beneath every defined network. But we can still separate traffic and provide failover by selecting multiple networks without actually doing any load balancing between the two. As Nathanaël mentioned, marking network for gluster use is only available in 3.6. I'm also interested if there is a better way around this procedure, or perharps enhancing it. Kind regards, Ivan On 11/27/2015 05:47 PM, Nathanaël Blanchet wrote: > Hello Nicolas, > > Did you have a look to this : > http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Select_Network_For_Gluster ? > But it is only available from >=3.6... > > Le 27/11/2015 17:02, Nicolas Ecarnot a écrit : >> Hello, >> >> [Here : oVirt 3.5.3, 3 x CentOS 7.0 hosts with replica-3 gluster SD >> on the hosts]. >> >> On the switchs, I have created a dedicated VLAN to isolate the >> glusterFS traffic, but I'm not using it yet. >> I was thinking of creating a dedicated IP for each node's gluster >> NIC, and a DNS record by the way ("my_nodes_name_GL"), but I fear >> using this hostname or this ip in oVirt GUI host network interface >> tab, leading oVirt think this is a different host. >> >> Not being sure this fear is clearly described, let's say : >> - On each node, I create a second ip+(dns record in the soa) used by >> gluster, plugged on the correct VLAN >> - in oVirt gui, in the host network setting tab, the interface will >> be seen, with its ip, but reverse-dns-related to a different hostname. >> Here, I fear oVirt might check this reverse DNS and declare this NIC >> belongs to another host. >> >> I would also prefer not use a reverse pointing to the name of the >> host management ip, as this is evil and I'm a good guy. >> >> On your side, how do you cope with a dedicated storage network in >> case of storage+compute mixed hosts? >> >