On 05/26/2014 06:22 PM, Grant Tailor wrote:

Well i just want each physical node to have some independencies. I will already take backups and snapshots so don't need live migration and all the HA features.

What does glusterfs does actually? I have heard of it but never really know its use.

With GlusterFS you can create a NAS out of standard x86 hardware. E.g. you have 4 nodes with 1TB of local storage each you create a distributed-replicated GlusterFS-volume which has a size of 2TB, but it still works fine even if 2 nodes fail. See gluster.org for more detailed information: http://www.gluster.org/about/

Also PLEASE how do i go ahead and setup ovirt to use the "LOCAL STORAGE" of the physical nodes?

Simply put your host into maintenance mode (Host - Maintenance) and select "Configure Local Storage" afterwards. You have to specify a folder which should contain your vm disk images on this host and oVirt configures the storage domain for you.

Thanks

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:51 AM, René Koch <rkoch@linuxland.at <mailto:rkoch@linuxland.at>> wrote:

On 05/26/2014 03:09 AM, Grant Tailor wrote:

What i want to do is have the hosts use their local storage..i do not want to use NAS or NFS for storage of host or virtual machine data/files. I wan each host to have their local SATA disks as their storage....just like in Ganeti

Sure you can use the "Local storage" feature.

What's the reason you don't want NFS? IS it because you don't want to have a dedicated storage or because you want to separate your vm storages? If it's the dedicated storage you could have a look at GlusterFS, otherwise you can for sure use the local disks.

Can ovirt do this? It is ok to have ISO images on the ovirt-engine/management host but i do not want NFS or Shared storage when it comes to the hosts in the infrastructure.

In oVirt 3.4.1 you have to use either NFS or POSIXFS - so there's a need for a NAS...

Please advice.

Thanks!!!

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