[ovirt-devel] [ovirt-users] [Feature review] Select network to be used for glusterfs

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:34:18PM +0530, Sahina Bose wrote:
> 
> 
> I've updated the feature page with the REST API and other comments. On
> further thought, there will be no change to Add brick API, as the engine
> will select the network to be used based on the networks setup for the host.
> If "Storage network" role is associated with any of the networks, this will
> be used. Otherwise, the host's address will be used to add the brick.
>

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The paragraph above rules out the use case I lay below. Could you relate
to it? Isn't it a reasonable use case?

> >If I am not mistaken, it could make sense to have a setup with one brick
> >using network A and another - using network B. Does your design support
> >this? I think that this would be particularly important on upgraded
> >clusters, where the management network is already used, but newly
> >created bricks should start using another network.
> >

May I repeat my follow request? It would help me understand the content
of the feature.

> >Would you add a feature page section regarding modification to the
> >Vdsm/Engine API?


> >One last comment - may I ask that new APIs accept both ipv4 and ipv6
> >addresses? There is an ongoing effort to support ipv6 on Vdsm.