[ovirt-devel] Remote DataCenter/Cluster

[Sahina Bose]

On 08/21/2014 03:42 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 08/21/2014 05:00 AM, Sahina Bose wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We ran into a requirement where we need to mark a DataCenter or Cluster
>> as remote. This is for the feature Gluster Geo-replication management -
>> where the same oVirt instance will be managing both the master volume
>> and as well as the remote site volume
>>
>> The reason we want to call out a Datacenter as remote, is to ensure that
>> the polling frequency on this is different from one that is co-located.
>>
>> Is there a similar requirement for virtualization?
>>
>> thanks
>> sahina
>
> I thought in the gluster view there are no DCs, only clusters?
> (actually, i wonder if we shouldn't consider the same for the virt use 
> case, and deprecate the DC entity, though that would be a major effort 
> and not sure worth it).

In fact, we were wondering if we need to bring in the concept of DC for 
the gluster view and mark it remote...or just stick with flagging 
cluster as Remote :)
Users may be more familiar with DC w.r.t DR

>
> to your question, yes. there is a similar use case for virt - flagging 
> a DC or Cluster and Storage as remote for a DR use case.
> though i don't think anyone spent cycles on modeling that