[Users] 2 node cluster with local storage?

Vijay Bellur vbellur at redhat.com
Mon Apr 1 13:13:06 UTC 2013


On 04/01/2013 06:13 PM, russell muetzelfeldt wrote:
> On 01/04/2013, at 8:53 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 04/01/2013 12:33 PM, russell muetzelfeldt wrote:
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>>> Is there any supported way (or advice on the best unsupported way) to provision a 2-node cluster using local storage?
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>> have you considered using gluster? if you setup the cluster as 'gluster' as well, it should be installed, you should be able to create a volume on it, then create a posixfs storage domain using it (and in ovirt 3.3, a glusterfs storage domain, which will provide better performance)?
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> I've got to admit I'd discounted gluster mainly because I've never touched it before and assumed the learning curve would distract me from what I actually want to be doing (getting a reasonably functional cluster to use as a target for programming against the REST API).
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> Is the gluster support reasonably straightforward out of the box? If so I might give that a go and see how it pans out.

Yes, setting up gluster is considered relatively easy. You can reach out 
for support here and/or on gluster-users mailing list.

Cheers,
Vijay



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