Storage Solution for Ovirt4.5

Hi Guys, I am using Ovirt4.3 with 5 hosts and SAN for 10 years and now looking for upgrade to it on latest version. Now i want to use server as storage instead of SAN due to economic reasons. So, i have used tgt/target-cli and created LUNs for storage and access through iscsi and everything seems well. Would it be a good solution? Also what could be possible limitation and disadvantage over to SAN box? Thanks. AS

Hi Guys, Can someone help to choose Storage for my cloud? Many Thanks!

Ovirt is fully compliant with iSCSI protocol. So the possible disadvantages and limitations are those of LIO/targetcli. Obviously, you must consider performance because most SANS are backed with dedicated controllers with plenty of RAM cache backed by BBU (Battery Backup Unit). You can replicate these features and enable write-back using dedicated RAID controllers with their own BBUs. The use of multipath and UPS is also really advisable. Don't use RAID software if you want performance and reliability. El 2024-05-23 04:08, Ankit Sharma escribió:
Hi Guys,
I am using Ovirt4.3 with 5 hosts and SAN for 10 years and now looking for upgrade to it on latest version.
Now i want to use server as storage instead of SAN due to economic reasons. So, i have used tgt/target-cli and created LUNs for storage and access through iscsi and everything seems well.
Would it be a good solution? Also what could be possible limitation and disadvantage over to SAN box?
Thanks. AS _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/PS4PRML6A4B72A...

Hi fsayd@, Thanks for your insight. We are planning to use PowerEdge R740xd which has hardware RAID. So, the setup would be like this. Storage(PowerEdge R740xd) server would be connecting to ovirt via iscsi LUNs which will be created using TGT or target-cli and we will be using 10Gbe switches for all data travelling between host and storage server. I believe this would give good performance and iops. Also, Storage would be in RAID 6 for data protection and availability. Thanks, AS
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