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

[Gianluca Cecchi]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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


Sorry,
do you mean that I can have a Gluster storage domain, with an external
engine and then backup/restore the egine inside a vm on this Gluster
environment as a self hosted engine?

Thanks
Gianluca
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