[ovirt-users] fileserver as a guest oVirt

[Karli Sjöberg]

Den 12 jul 2014 22:49 skrev Niklas Fondberg <niklas at vireone.com>:
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> On 12 jul 2014, at 16:57, "Karli Sjöberg" <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se> wrote:
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>> Den 12 jul 2014 15:45 skrev Niklas Fondberg <niklas at vireone.com>:
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>> > Hi,
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>> > I’m new to oVirt but I must say I am impressed!
>> > I am running it on a HP DL380 with an external SAS chassi.
>> > Linux dist is Centos 6.5 and oVirt is 3.4 running all-in-one (for now until we need to have a second host).
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>> > Our company (www.vireone.com) deals with system architecture for many telco and media operators and is now setting up a small own datacenter for our internal tests as well as our IT infrastructure.
>> > We are in the process of installing Zentyal for the SMB purposes on a guest and it would be great to have that guest also serving a fs path directory with NFS + SMB (which is semi crippled on the host after oVirt installation with version 3 et.c.).
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>> > Does anyone have an idea of how I can through oVirt (seen several solutions using virsh and kvm) letting my Zentyal Ubuntu guest have access to a host mount point or if necessary (second best) a seperate partition?
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>> > Best regards
>> > Niklas
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>> Why not just give the guest a thin provision virtual hard drive and expand it on a demand basis?
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>> /K
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> Thanks for the advise but this would not suite us I'm afraid. It would be difficult wrt incremental backups as well as host machine file-routines.
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Well, going by Occam's raizor; the simplest answer is usually correct. Can't really tell what you mean by file-routines but backups would be well served by snapshots (can't get more incremental than that) and disaster recovery could be as easy as a rsync from inside the guest to a remote machine.

The biggest pros here is the ease of being able to setup an export domain, attach, export the VM, detach domain, and then attach and import to a "real" setup when the AIO starts feeling crowded later on. Thinking ahead is never a bad thing, no?

/K
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