[ovirt-users] separate ovirtmgmt from glusterfs traffic

[Demeter Tibor]

Hi,

I think is a really good question, why does not possible sepereate storage network traffic like display, etc? 
This is not an easy task to set up, and it's more difficult on a live system. 

Tibor


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> On 18/11/14 06:25, 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,
> >
> >
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> I think that the possibility to add a separate storage network is a
> must. It doesn't make sense Gluster support if you can't separate
> management network traffic of storage network traffic. In 3.5 you can
> define management/vm/display/migration interfaces but not storage
> interfaces.  Why? I don't know. But I think that Gluster support is
> incomplete without exclusive storage networking.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Federico
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