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

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Sat Oct 25 23:12:23 UTC 2014


On 10/23/2014 05:00 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc at redhat.com
> <mailto: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?
>

we didn't add gluster due to concerns about how it works without replica 
3. we're looking with the gluster team around making sure this works 
together going forward




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