[ovirt-devel] DRBD Integration with oVirt

[Barak Korren]

>> But what sort of user experience and system architecture is intended?
>> Is configuration of volumes planned to be done directly from the oVirt
>> UI?
>
> Once a DRBD Manage storage cluster is set up, oVirt would handle the
> management of DRBD volumes.

So does this mean there would be some kind of a "DRBD" cluster, like
the "Gluseter cluster" oVirt has right now?

>> As far as using DRBD for backing oVirt VMs, this seems to already be
>> working. The oVirt CI system (which runs on top of oVirt) had been
>> using a DRBD-backed NFS storage for years...
>>
>
> The most recent release of DRBD contains new features that allow it to
> integrate more directly with virtualization/cloud platforms. So VMs could
> have DRBD-backed storage without additional overhead from NFS.

Could you elaborate a little on how this works? Would this means the
block devices would be configured on the hypervisors themselves? Is
this intended to be some kind of a hyper-converged architecture?


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Barak Korren
bkorren at redhat.com
RHEV-CI Team