[ovirt-users] planning ovirt for production

[Itamar Heim]

On 07/16/2014 06:46 PM, Demeter Tibor wrote:
> Hi,
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> We have a production environment with KVM+centos6 and we want to switch
> to ovirt.
> At this moment we have 12 VM on three independent server.
> This VMs uses the local disks of servers, we don't have a central storage.
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> currently we have for ovirt
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> - Two Dell R710 with 128 gigs of ram.
> - A third dell server for ovirt-engine.
> - four 1 gb/sec NICs/ server.
> - Smart GB switch
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> we would like make an ovirt environment with
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> - clusterized, redundant filesystem, data loss protection
> - If a host goes to down the VMs could made a restart on the remain host
> - LACP/bonding (mode 6) for fast I/O beetwen gluster hosts, we don't
> have 10Gbe nics
> - 8 TB of disk capacity for VMs
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> we don't want:
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> - using hw raid on servers, because we need free disk tray for more capacity
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> My questions.
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> - Which glusterfs method is the best for us for performance?

vijay?

> - Can I make a real "performance" disk i/o  by 4-4 NICs  ? Or I need 10
> Gbe nic for this?
> - How much disk need for good redundancy/performance? 4/server or
> 2/server ?
> - What will the weak point our project?

make sure to use gluster with replica 3, which needs 3 servers?
maybe use hosted engine to remove need for dedicated server for it?

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> Thanks in advance.
>
> Tibor
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