On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Scott Sobotka <scott@pragmatica.us> wrote:

Has anyone gotten an oVirt hosted engine and shared storage environment running with ScaleIO as the backing storage?

I was thinking that I would just set up iSCSI LUNs in ScaleIO and have oVirt point directly to one for the hosted engine setup. From there, my plan was to assign disks to VMs as direct LUNs.

Unfortunately, it looks like ScaleIO dropped iSCSI support at around version 1.32 and I'm at a loss as to how I can expose ScaleIO LUNs to oVirt.

Thank you,
--Scott Sobotka

I don't know much of ScaleIO, but at least since Liberty release it can be configured as a cinder backend driver in Openstack
http://docs.openstack.org/liberty/config-reference/content/ScaleIO-cinder-driver.html
http://docs.openstack.org/mitaka/config-reference/block-storage/drivers/emc-scaleio-driver.html

So the more "natural" way that comes to mind is to interface oVirt with cinder and configure ScaleIO in cinder in similar way as with Ceph backend
http://old.ovirt.org/Features/Cinder_Integration

But this implies configuring Openstack too and also I don't know how the security part (see ceph authentication in above link), if present in ScaleIO, could be managed

HIH searching a solution

Gianluca