[Users] Gluster network info

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On 10/03/2013 03:45 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Dan Kenigsberg  wrote:
> 
>>>
>>>>> SO the question is : what about ovirtmgmt network for gluster
>>>>> replication when gluster domain is provided by ovirt nodes?
>>>>> I suppose it could be a problem too, couldn't it?
>>>
>>> yes that is correct, using ovirtmgmt for non management traffic is not a
>>> good idea.
>>>
>>>>> In case I have a dedicated network for gluster for the nodes, how can
>>>>> i configure it?
>>>
>>> Generally there two ways to go about this:
>>>
>>> 1. add a new network role 'gluster replication' and then adjust the
>>> engine code to pass the network with this role as parameter to the
>>> replication verb in VDSM.
>>>
>>> 2. in the replication verb in the UI let the user choose which network
>>> to use for the replication.
>>>
>>> I am not familiar with the replication verb so I might be missing
>>> something but otherwise I think that solution 2 is more simple and less
>>> invasive then requiring a new network role.
>>
>> Bala, is there a means to select, for each node, which IP address is to
>> be used for replication? AFAICT we use the host fqdn, which most
>> probably resolves to the ovirtmgmt device.
> 
>  what is "replication verb in the UI"? Inside UI when I click "create
> volume" and then "add Bricks" buttons I can only select "Server" that
> in my case is a drop down menu containing only ip addresses of my 2
> hypervisors....
> 
> Or simply do you mean development steps to integrate this missing
> functionality in oVirt with steps 1. and 2.?

I am probably missing some background around Gluster, could you share
what triggers the gluster replication?

> 
> Thanks,
> Gianluca
>