[ovirt-users] Self hosted engine and storage domain limitations
Jiri Moskovcak
jmoskovc at redhat.com
Thu Oct 23 07:04:44 UTC 2014
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
> Gianluca
>
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