[ovirt-users] Sizing the master storage domain

[Nicolas Ecarnot]

Le 18/09/2014 13:30, Itamar Heim a écrit :
> On 09/18/2014 02:27 PM, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know Itamar explained that the notion of master storage domain will
>> disappear in some releases.
>> But now, with a 3.4 I'm installing, I was wondering :
>>
>> - on my other oVirt setups, I started with one big (iSCSI) LUN, which is
>> the master, and stored as many VMs I could
>> - when space came to miss, I added another LUN, the another...
>> - when I have to do some maintenance (grow, disable, other...) on a LUN,
>> I can move my VM disks amongst the normal storage domains. When Empty, I
>> can switch them off, add others, and so on
>>
>> The only one I can not play with is the master one.
>> I came to think that I had no benefice storing anything on the master
>> storage domain, and use only the normal storage domains.
>>
>> And then, I came to think I had no reason to dedicate a huge LUN for the
>> master.
>>
>> Ok, but according to you, what is the minimum reasonable size for a
>> master storage domain?
>>
>
> you should be able to move master domain to maint (deactivate, not
> detach) as well (full or empty). engine will just configure another
> storage domain as master iirc.

This is a nice feature, but as detaching (then removing) is needed, my 
question still remains.

-- 
Nicolas Ecarnot