Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt and Gluster

29 Jul 2015

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On 07/29/2015 02=3A24 PM=2C Joop wrote=3A
=3E On 29-7-2015 13=3A59=2C Jorick Astrego wrote=3A
=3E=3E For RHEV I don=27t have an answer=2E
=3E=3E
=3E=3E But for anyone that cares=2C we=27ve been running oVirt 3=2E5 and Gl=
usterFS
=3E=3E 3=2E6 for about three months in production now=2E We run a Gluster=

=3E=3E cluster and a seperate virtualization hosts cluster=2E The Gluster=

=3E=3E cluster is installed=2C configured and managed seperately from oVirt=
 as
=3E=3E there is no way to have a seperate storage network in oVirt 3=2E5
=3E=3E
=3E I run something comparable but using a split dns to get a separate
=3E storage network but also a storage cluster and virt cluster=2E The
=3E storage is managed through ovirt though because of the split-dns=2E
=3E
=3E=3E There have been no specific incompatibility issues=2C so we are very=

=3E=3E happy=2E But as we don=27t use every feature mileage may vary=2E
=3E Question=3A do you use fuse mounts or libgfapi=3F
=3E
=3E I use libgfapi in test=2C using special vdsm packages and need to test=

=3E if rebooting gluster nodes has an impact on running VMs=2E Select
=3E GlusterFS storage domain in oVirt isn=27t guaranteed  to give you libgf=
api!
=3E
=3E Joop
=3E
It=27s production=2C so I=27m using regular FUSE mounts=2E Although slower=
=2C it
works at least with =22supported=22 packages=2E

We did spend some extra on hardware and are conservatively staying close
to the Red Hat Storage hardware requirements=2E So that means RAID10 for
now and a seperate SSD stroge volume=2E

For our enterprise customers we are waiting for oVirt 3=2E6 and will spend=

even more on hardware =28RDMA=2C Datacenter bridging=2C PCIe SSD=27s=2C etc=
=29 but
we have to do a lot more testing before rolling it out=2E

Met vriendelijke groet=2C With kind regards=2C

Jorick Astrego

Netbulae Virtualization Experts=20

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