[ovirt-users] How do i use local storage of hosts with ovirt?

[René Koch]

On 05/29/2014 04:08 AM, Grant Tailor wrote:
> This is for a private cloud and no thanks..i am okay with my local
> storage..have the local storage in RAID 1 and have a dedicated backup
> server with bacula doing continuous backup.
> Having a network storage complicates things, and i dont want it..at
> least not now...maybe in 3 years i may want it but not now for what i am
> doing.
>
>
> So anyone willing to help with how to setup hosts to use local storage?

As I already wrote to you you have to put the host into maintenance mode 
in order to be able to configure local storage. Didn't this work?


Regards,
René

>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:prmarino1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Um I missed the earlier part of this thread but I can tell you from
>     experience not using shared storage of one kind or an other for
>     virtualization is always a mistake you will regret latter. Its a
>     common (almost default) mistake people who are just getting started
>     with virtualization make. Fibre (which includes optical fiber and
>     copper using the same protocols ) channel at best or a pNFS or
>     Gluster solution will server you a lot better as long as you have a
>     decent number of spindles and a lot of ram for cache on the storage
>     servers/controllers.
>
>
>
>     -- Sent from my HP Pre3
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     On May 28, 2014 20:51, Grant Tailor <therealwebguru at gmail.com
>     <mailto:therealwebguru at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I plan NOT to use shared storage or network storage and will be
>     using local storage of hosts to provision storage for VMs
>
>     How do i do this?
>
>     For example in this screenshot, no way to configure local storage
>
>     Thanks
>
>
>
>
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