[ovirt-users] Can i do this with ovirt?

[René Koch]

On 05/26/2014 06:22 PM, Grant Tailor wrote:
> Well i just want each physical node to have some independencies. I will
> already take backups and snapshots so don't need live migration and all
> the HA features.
>
>
> What does glusterfs does actually? I have heard of it but never really
> know its use.

With GlusterFS you can create a NAS out of standard x86 hardware. E.g. 
you have 4 nodes with 1TB of local storage each you create a 
distributed-replicated GlusterFS-volume which has a size of 2TB, but it 
still works fine even if 2 nodes fail.

See gluster.org for more detailed information: http://www.gluster.org/about/


>
> Also PLEASE how do i go ahead and setup ovirt to use the "LOCAL STORAGE"
> of the physical nodes?

Simply put your host into maintenance mode (Host - Maintenance) and 
select "Configure Local Storage" afterwards. You have to specify a 
folder which should contain your vm disk images on this host and oVirt 
configures the storage domain for you.


>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:51 AM, René Koch <rkoch at linuxland.at
> <mailto:rkoch at linuxland.at>> wrote:
>
>     On 05/26/2014 03:09 AM, Grant Tailor wrote:
>
>         What i want to do is have the hosts use their local storage..i
>         do not
>         want to use NAS or NFS for storage of host or virtual machine
>         data/files. I wan each host to have their local SATA disks as their
>         storage....just like in Ganeti
>
>
>     Sure you can use the "Local storage" feature.
>
>     What's the reason you don't want NFS? IS it because you don't want
>     to have a dedicated storage or because you want to separate your vm
>     storages? If it's the dedicated storage you could have a look at
>     GlusterFS, otherwise you can for sure use the local disks.
>
>
>
>         Can ovirt do this?
>         It is ok to have ISO images on the ovirt-engine/management host
>         but i do
>         not want NFS or Shared storage when it comes to the hosts in the
>         infrastructure.
>
>
>     In oVirt 3.4.1 you have to use either NFS or POSIXFS - so there's a
>     need for a NAS...
>
>
>         Please advice.
>
>         Thanks!!!
>
>
>
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