[ovirt-users] separate ovirtmgmt from glusterfs traffic

Demeter Tibor tdemeter at itsmart.hu
Thu Nov 20 07:45:48 UTC 2014


Hi,

Is this feature will be available on an existing domain or on a live system ? (after upgrade)
I would be very grateful if it will available on 3.5.x versions:)
In this case your team will be guest for a lot of chocklet/beer from me:)

Have a nice day,

Tibor





----- Eredeti üzenet -----
> We will try and address this in the next release of oVirt - there were
> some issues earlier with identifying the bricks correctly, but with the
> gluster host uuid support in gluster xml commands, we can fix this.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049994 - marked for 3.6.0
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/19/2014 01:30 AM, Demeter Tibor wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> > ----- Eredeti üzenet -----
> >> 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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