[Users] What are you looking for from oVirt?

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nathan Stratton" <nathan at robotics.net>
> To: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow at redhat.com>
> Cc: "arch" <arch at ovirt.org>, "Users" <users at ovirt.org>, "board" <board at ovirt.org>, "Dave Neary" <dneary at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:57:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] What are you looking for from oVirt?
> 
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
> 
> > What does your deployment look like - it's be great to understand
> > how you're using it - eg. Linux guests only, Windows, size of
> > deployment - do your users use poweruser portal etc.
> 
> I have 2 deployments I am working on with two different companies.
> 
> The first is two clusters (SJC and NYC) each with 20 boxes PXEBooted
> to
> a backend NetApp. All guests are Linux (Centos, RHEL, and Fedora).
> One of
> the unique things with the clusters is they use read only linux and
> NFS
> root.
> 
> The 2nd is still in design stage, but is starting out with 3 clusters
> (East / West US and Europe) each with 20 boxes. Each server is based
> on
> white label Xeon E5-2687W, 128GB RAM, 10GBase-T, and 12 SATA disks on
> a
> hardware RAID 6 controller. This is also going to use shared NFS read
> only
> root with PXEBoot from NetApps.
> 
> I have been running GlusterFS on and off for 5 years and are looking
> at
> running GlusterFS on all the raw 300TB RAID6 in each server. Each
> server
> will be a brick, two servers with distribute for redundancy, 10
> distribute pairs then will be unified. I have been trying to use this
> for
> raw image store for years, but its just not ready, so we will use
> NetApp
> for that, however GlusterFS will be very handy for tier 2 bulk
> storage.
> 
> > GlusterFS and Quantum are certainly in the works, but in a separate
> > thread I'd love to hear feedback on the API what the
> > issues/enhancements are.
> > Would you be able to post some initial comments on that?
> 
> APIs are great today on the backend, we are looking at the ability to
> modify the front end so we can tie it into our portal allowing users
> to
> manage their VMs seamless with the other services we offer.

So are you looking to extend the power user portal or something more?



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> Nathan Stratton
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