[Users] Attach NFS storage to multiple datacenter

[Dafna Ron]

sounds like a very creative use for the provider 3.3 feature and I like 
the way you think :)

basically, it will require installing an all-in-one openstack but if 
downtime is such a big issue it could be a good solution...

Dafna


On 01/16/2014 06:11 PM, Elad Ben Aharon wrote:
> Well, I'll be creative and I'll suggest you the following idea.
> There is an option to add a glance image server to RHEV as an external provider.
> This new feature allows you to export disks (not VMs) to the glance image repository while the VM which the disk is attached to is running.
> As for the VM configuration (which is not part of the disk that will be exported to the glance server), there is an option (which was introduced in RHEV3.3) to create a VM from a configuration file (OVF) of another VM.
>
> Dafna, Fede, Liron, Itamar, please back me up here. Will it be possible to perform those actions? Can we suggest this idea to the customer?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tobias Fiebig" <mail at wybt.net>
> To: "Elad Ben Aharon" <ebenahar at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Users at ovirt.org List" <Users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 6:47:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Attach NFS storage to multiple datacenter
>
> Heho,
>> Unfortunately yes, you'll suffer from a down time during this process.
> Well, as the downtime could be significantly decreased/the comfort for
> an "migrate one vm, then the next" largely increased, if an nfs storage
> could be mounted on multiple datacenters simultaneous i wonder if such a
> feature is planed?
>
> Main concern for me is that it might not really fit into the current way
> of handling storage in ovirt.
>
> With best Regards,
> Tobias
>


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Dafna Ron