[ovirt-users] separate ovirtmgmt from glusterfs traffic

[Joop]

On 18-11-2014 10:25, Juan Pablo Lorier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In my experience, having ovirt traffic on the same nic that gluster
> can make your platafrom unstable. I was using it for large file
> storage and gluster has so big traffic that ovirt got confused and
> started marking hosts as unavailable because of hi latency.
> I've opened an RFE over a year ago, but had no luck with the team to
> get it done. In the RFE I was asking to have a way in the UI to decide
> which nic to use for gluster other than the MGMT net that is the one
> ovirt lets you use.
> There's another way to do this and it's from outside ovirt. There you
> have to unregister and re register the bricks using gluster console
> commands. This way, when you register the bricks, you can specify the
> IP address of the spare NIC and then the traffic will not interfere
> with the mgmt.
> There's a step that I don't recall much, but ovirt is going to need to
> know that the bricks are no longer is the mgmt IP, maybe someone else
> in the list can help with this. I can tell you that if you search the
> list you'll see my posts about this and the replys of those who helped
> my back then.
> Regards,
>
The way I split this is using a split-dns solutions, either with bind or
hosts files. This way engine sees the mgmt address and the gluster
servers see their storage address.

Regards,

Joop