[ovirt-devel] Add a local drive to Ovirt

[Nir Soffer]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:52 PM, Sven Kieske <svenkieske at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18.04.2016 17:07, Bryan Hughes wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I am trying to add a physical drive to Ovirt.  For instance, my physical machine has 3 extra hard drives attached and I want to add it directly instead of through Gluster or iSCSI.  Is this possible?
>>
>> I tried using POSIX by creating an xfs filesystem on /dev/sde1 and tried to add that as a POSIX datastore but it fails in trying to mount the filesystem.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>
>
> I guess you're looking for this feature:
>
> http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/mixed-types-data-center/
>
> however you need to do this via a shared DC type as mentioned in the
> above link.
>
> Some bugs tracking this feature are mentioned here:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1134318

This bug is not related to mixed types data center, that feature is
about supporting both file based
and block based storage types in same data center. The feature is
completed for long time and
we don't have any bugs about it.

> However I'm not quite sure if this is fully implemented yet.

Mixing local and shared storage is not implemented and even not planned yet.

Nir