[ovirt-users] Self hosted engine and storage domain limitations

[Jiri Moskovcak]

On 10/22/2014 03:52 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> Hello,
> now with oVirt 3.5 there is also iSCSI with NFS as backed storage for
> Hosted Engine.
> What is the limitation about the storage domain? The integration in
> setup scripts or due to storage type itself in engine mgmt?

Both ;) The storage is managed via vdsm so whatever vdsm supports HE 
should support, but it requires some work in setup and the agent code.

>
> What I mean is: if in some way one initially configures the engine on an
> external server (physical or virtual), could then be feasible migrating
> it "manually" in the oVirt environment (with backup/restore steps)?
>

- yes

> Is there any plan to add for example in 3.6 another storage domain type
> such as local posixfs, or some other type to be able to realize sort of
> vSphere vSAN infrastructure for small/labs environments?
>

Yes, so far we have a plan to add fiber channel support in 3.6 but maybe 
we throw in even other popular storage backends, but nothing specific is 
decided yet. You can file a feature request in our bugzilla [1]if you 
have a good use case for some storage backend we will definitely 
consider it.

Regards,
Jirka


[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=oVirt
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