[ovirt-users] oVirt Hosted Engine and gluster mount -> native nfs?

[Andrew Lau]

On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Jason Brooks <jbrooks at redhat.com> wrote:
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Andrew Lau" <andrew at andrewklau.com>
>> To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2014 10:30:47 PM
>> Subject: [ovirt-users] oVirt Hosted Engine and gluster mount -> native nfs?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having many issues with the inbuilt gluster nfs server (crashing
>> and disconnecting). I was wondering, if anyone's tried exporting the
>> gluster mount through glusterfs and then running a NFS server locally?
>
> I haven't tried this, but I'm testing gluster nfs w/ ctdb & a virtual IP
> and that seems to be working so far...
>
> Jason

Some reason my gluster nfs servers were notorious for crashing and
virtual IPs with keepalived kept interfering with the interfaces in
oVirt which made it a pain to modify networks within the UI.
I went a head and tried this anyway, and it appears to be holding up a
lot better than the gluster nfs server. So far so good!

>
>>
>> eg.
>> storage servers (gluster) -> hypervisor (gluster client -> export nfs
>> of gluster client)
>>
>> Does this pose any issues with sanlock if there are then multiple nfs
>> servers? I've been simply mounting the nfs servers as
>> localhost:/hosted-engine as it means another host can die without
>> effecting the nfs connection. My only concern would be regarding
>> sanlock/nfslock as there'd be multiple NFS servers.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
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