[ovirt-devel] DRBD Integration with oVirt

[Allon Mureinik]

Maybe I'm being daft, but I'm missing something basic here.
What's the end goal? A DRBD Storage Domain in oVirt?

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Hayley Swimelar <hayley at linbit.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> A DRBD integration into oVirt is currently being planned.
>
> DRBD provides replicated, highly available block storage. For those
> unfamiliar with DRBD more information can be found here:
> https://www.drbd.org/en/comp/drbd-linux-driver
>
> DRBD 9 is the latest version of DRBD and interacts with DRBD Manage which
> is a daemon exposed via a D-Bus api. More information can be found here:
> https://www.drbd.org/en/comp/drbdmanage
>
> DRBD Manage handles the creation, assignment, etc. of DRBD volumes and is
> the interface through which Cinder manages DRBD.
>
> We are looking for advice on how best to have oVirt communicate with DRBD
> Manage and we have come to two options:
>
> 1) Use Cinder. Although we are integrated into Cinder, there are concerns
> about the need to set up a complete Cinder instance to provide access to
> DRBD.
>
> 2) The alternative to Cinder would be to have the oVirt Engine communicate
> directly to DRBD Manage via D-Bus.
>
> Any advice on the best way to achieve this would be much appreciated.
>
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> Hayley Swimelar
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