10:12 a.m.
Hi folks,
I'm trying to evaluate ovrit as a possible virtualization solution for
my datacenter .
I need some of my VMs to have access to multiple disks installed in the
host so that the RAID will be configured in the guest level, this way I
can optimize redundancy and /IO performance per guest. (raid0 vs raid10 vs
raid 5) - this would be similar to what EC2/Openstack
call ephemeral storage.
Is this possible in oVirt ?
A less desirable solution would be to create different RAID arrays in the
host and place VM images on different arrays, is that possible ?
( according to the pdf guide this is possible in RHEL but not in oVirt
node ?!? )
--
Oded Ben Ozer
IT Operations Architect
Pageonce inc
+972544668357
10:34 a.m.
On 05/31/2012 05:12 PM, Oded Ben Ozer wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm trying to evaluate ovrit as a possible virtualization solution for
my datacenter .
I need some of my VMs to have access to multiple disks installed in the
host so that the RAID will be configured in the guest level, this way
I can optimize redundancy and /IO performance per guest. (raid0 vs
raid10 vs raid 5) - this would be similar to what EC2/Openstack
call ephemeral storage.
Is this possible in oVirt ?
A less desirable solution would be to create different RAID arrays in
the host and place VM images on different arrays, is that possible ?
( according to the pdf guide this is possible in RHEL but not in oVirt
node ?!? )
can you please elaborate a bit more on your use case?
specifcially, are you planning on using shared storage
(fc/iscsi/nfs/gluster/etc.) or local storage of each hypervisor?
1:26 p.m.
Hi Itamar,
Local storage, my plan is use the local disks in each hypervisor (4 or 6
depending on generation, no HW raid ) to get cheap, none-centralized high
IO storage for my VMs.
For example :
A Cassandra/Hadoop VM would get 6 disks and would use RAID0 to maximize IO
performance and rely on Cassandra architecture for redundancy.
A MySQL VM running on the same hypervisor would use RAID10 on its 6 disks
to balance IO performance and redundancy.
A third VM running our in house web scraping software would only use two
disks (RAID1) but consume most of the hypervisor CPU and RAM.
This is more or less how we run stuff currently, using XEN community, but
after passing the 100 hypervisors mark some sort of centralized management
is becoming necessary.
If this is not possible using the web UI it might be possible by editing
the templates that generate the libvirt VM XML.
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 05/31/2012 05:12 PM, Oded Ben Ozer wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to evaluate ovrit as a possible virtualization solution for
> my datacenter .
> I need some of my VMs to have access to multiple disks installed in the
> host so that the RAID will be configured in the guest level, this way
> I can optimize redundancy and /IO performance per guest. (raid0 vs
> raid10 vs raid 5) - this would be similar to what EC2/Openstack
> call ephemeral storage.
> Is this possible in oVirt ?
> A less desirable solution would be to create different RAID arrays in
> the host and place VM images on different arrays, is that possible ?
> ( according to the pdf guide this is possible in RHEL but not in oVirt
> node ?!? )
>
can you please elaborate a bit more on your use case?
specifcially, are you planning on using shared storage
(fc/iscsi/nfs/gluster/etc.) or local storage of each hypervisor?
--
Oded Ben Ozer
IT Operations Architect
Pageonce inc
+972544668357
4:02 a.m.
On 06/01/2012 08:26 PM, Oded Ben Ozer wrote:
Hi Itamar,
Local storage, my plan is use the local disks in each hypervisor (4 or 6
depending on generation, no HW raid ) to get cheap, none-centralized
high IO storage for my VMs.
For example :
A Cassandra/Hadoop VM would get 6 disks and would use RAID0 to maximize
IO performance and rely on Cassandra architecture for redundancy.
A MySQL VM running on the same hypervisor would use RAID10 on its 6
disks to balance IO performance and redundancy.
A third VM running our in house web scraping software would only use two
disks (RAID1) but consume most of the hypervisor CPU and RAM.
This is more or less how we run stuff currently, using XEN community,
but after passing the 100 hypervisors mark some sort
of centralized management is becoming necessary.
If this is not possible using the web UI it might be possible by editing
the templates that generate the libvirt VM XML.
sounds a bit elaborate to me rather than having the disks used as one or
at most two sets of disk, but sounds like you've done your math.
if you want to expose a guest disk from a specific storage, you would
need to create a storage domain from that storage (either block based or
FS based).
so, for simple file based local storage, you would need to mount and
create a path with proper vdsm permissions on the host for each of these
disks.
then you can choose per VM to add disks to it from which ever storage
domains you want
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com
<mailto:iheim@redhat.com>> wrote:
On 05/31/2012 05:12 PM, Oded Ben Ozer wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm trying to evaluate ovrit as a possible virtualization
solution for
my datacenter .
I need some of my VMs to have access to multiple disks
installed in the
host so that the RAID will be configured in the guest level,
this way
I can optimize redundancy and /IO performance per guest. (raid0 vs
raid10 vs raid 5) - this would be similar to what EC2/Openstack
call ephemeral storage.
Is this possible in oVirt ?
A less desirable solution would be to create different RAID
arrays in
the host and place VM images on different arrays, is that possible ?
( according to the pdf guide this is possible in RHEL but not
in oVirt
node ?!? )
can you please elaborate a bit more on your use case?
specifcially, are you planning on using shared storage
(fc/iscsi/nfs/gluster/etc.) or local storage of each hypervisor?
--
Oded Ben Ozer
IT Operations Architect
Pageonce inc
+972544668357
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