[Users] oVirt 3.2 on CentOS with Gluster 3.3

[Vijay Bellur]

On 03/07/2013 04:36 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> On 03/06/2013 05:59 PM, Rob Zwissler wrote:
>> On one hand I like oVirt, I think you guys have done a good job with
>> this, and it is free software so I don't want to complain.
>>
>> But on the other hand, if you release a major/stable release (ie:
>> oVirt 3.2), but it relies on a major/critical component (clustering
>> filesystem server) that is in alpha, not even beta, but alpha
>> prerelease form, you really should be up front and communicative about
>> this.  My searches turned up nothing except an offhand statement from
>> a GlusterFS developer, nothing from the oVirt team until now.
>>
>> It is not acceptable to expect people to run something as critical as
>> a cluster filesystem server in alpha form on anything short of a
>> development test setup.  Are any other components of oVirt 3.2
>> dependent on non-stable general release packages?
>>
>> What is the latest release of oVirt considered to be stable and
>> considered safe for use on production systems?
>
> It seems like there has been conflation of two things here - I may be
> wrong with what I say, but having checked, I do not believe so.
>
> With oVirt 3.2/Gluster 3.4, you will be able to manage Gluster clusters
> using the oVirt engine. This is a completely new integration, which is
> still not in a production Gluster release.
>
> However, it is still completely fine to use Gluster as storage for an
> oVirt 3.1 or 3.2 managed cluster. The ability to use Gluster easily as a
> storage back-end was added in oVirt 3.1, and as far as I know, there is
> no problem using glusterfs 3.3 as a POSIX storage filesystem for oVirt 3.2.
>
> Vijay, Shireesh, Ayal, is my understanding correct? I am worried that
> we've been giving people the wrong impression here.
>

Yes, your description is right.

Thanks,
Vijay