[Users] 2 node cluster with local storage?

[Itamar Heim]

On 04/01/2013 04:13 PM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
> 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:
>>>>
>>>> Is there any supported way (or advice on the best unsupported way)
>>>> to provision a 2-node cluster using local storage?
>>>
>>> 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)?
>>
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> 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.

or not try to do something like two hosts with local storage in same 
DC/Cluster...
if this is just for some tests, either put them in different ones, or 
say, enable NFS on one of them and compromise on not using the storage 
from the other one (or NFS on each, and use two NFS storage domains in 
the same DC) - of course a failure of each node in this case will mean 
VMs hosted on it won't be able to run, so it would be similar to just 
having a local storage host alone...