[Users] taking advantage of extra disk space on nodes

[Sven Kieske]

AFAIK

gluster on the same node as vdsm is not supported and may lead to
problems.

I don't know if this statement still holds true for ovirt 3.4, though.

Maybe someone with more gluster experience can elaborate on this?



Am 12.02.2014 18:48, schrieb Robert Story:
> So I've got a handful of oVirt nodes now, and most of them have over 100G of
> unallocated disk space. I'm trying to figure out how to best take advantage
> of that space. I see two possibilities: storage for oVirt, or
> backup/archive storage.
> 
> I'm currently using a single NFS server for VM/iso/export storage (oVirt
> 3.3.x on CentOS, if it matters) and don't need to scale to hundreds of
> nodes (probably 10-20, max). Is current gluster support stable enough for
> production? What are the pros/cons of gluster vs NFS?  I like the idea of
> not having a single point of failure but worry about performance.
> 
> The other option is to stick with my NFS server and use the extra storage
> for archive/backup space. Here I'm looking for reliability (i.e. losing a
> server won't cause data loss) over performance. Are there pros/cons to
> gluster vs ceph? Will either/both peacefully co-exist with an ovirt node?
> 
> All suggestions welcomed. Thanks!


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