This is for a private cloud and no thanks..i am okay with my local storage..have the local storage in RAID 1 and have a dedicated backup server with bacula doing continuous backup. Having a network storage complicates things, and i dont want it..at least not now...maybe in 3 years i may want it but not now for what i am doing. So anyone willing to help with how to setup hosts to use local storage? Thanks On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1@gmail.com>wrote:

Um I missed the earlier part of this thread but I can tell you from experience not using shared storage of one kind or an other for virtualization is always a mistake you will regret latter. Its a common (almost default) mistake people who are just getting started with virtualization make. Fibre (which includes optical fiber and copper using the same protocols ) channel at best or a pNFS or Gluster solution will server you a lot better as long as you have a decent number of spindles and a lot of ram for cache on the storage servers/controllers.

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------------------------------ On May 28, 2014 20:51, Grant Tailor <therealwebguru@gmail.com> wrote:

I plan NOT to use shared storage or network storage and will be using local storage of hosts to provision storage for VMs

How do i do this?

For example in this screenshot, no way to configure local storage

Thanks

This is why i like Ganeti because they are the only one that understand there is a niche and support for clusters using local storage of hosts. I mean not everyone wants a Shared/network storage for crying out loud. On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1@gmail.com>wrote:

Um I missed the earlier part of this thread but I can tell you from experience not using shared storage of one kind or an other for virtualization is always a mistake you will regret latter. Its a common (almost default) mistake people who are just getting started with virtualization make. Fibre (which includes optical fiber and copper using the same protocols ) channel at best or a pNFS or Gluster solution will server you a lot better as long as you have a decent number of spindles and a lot of ram for cache on the storage servers/controllers.

-- Sent from my HP Pre3

------------------------------ On May 28, 2014 20:51, Grant Tailor <therealwebguru@gmail.com> wrote:

I plan NOT to use shared storage or network storage and will be using local storage of hosts to provision storage for VMs

How do i do this?

For example in this screenshot, no way to configure local storage

Thanks

Gianluca Cecchi wrote:

For sure an All-In-One installation lets you configure a local storage domain: http://www.ovirt.org/Feature/AllInOne

I have one setup like this where I definied more local storage domains (aka more mount points pointing to different disks with different speeds...)

I don't know if this can match your needs I don't remember if you can configure local storage domain for a non-allinone setup. If not, I think it would be interesting to offer it as an enahncement for future releases. A possible workflow could be: offer chance to add local storage only if the cluster is composed by only one node and in that case show a big warning that adding a local storage would prevent adding other nodes to this cluster therafter. If trying then to add another node, show a message that it is not possible as it has a local storage domain attached

Yes you can. Put the/a host in maintenance, then create local storage and move the host to the datacenter/cluster that has been generated and bring it up. You can't have two hosts using the same local storage but that is by design :-) No hosted engine too. Joop