[ovirt-users] Hosted engine setup using Gluster - what is proper param's for the storage domain names?

[Sahina Bose]

On 12/17/2015 10:32 PM, Willard Dennis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Doing the hosted engine setup on Gluster; am at the point of configuring the storage domain / datacenter names, and not sure of what my best move is here… Here’s what I’m seeing:
>
> ——
>            --== STORAGE CONFIGURATION ==--
>
>            During customization use CTRL-D to abort.
>            Please specify the storage you would like to use (glusterfs, iscsi, fc, nfs3, nfs4)[nfs3]: glusterfs
> [ INFO  ] Please note that Replica 3 support is required for the shared storage.
>            Please specify the full shared storage connection path to use (example: host:/path): localhost:/engine
> [WARNING] Due to several bugs in mount.glusterfs the validation of GlusterFS share cannot be reliable.
> [ INFO  ] GlusterFS replica 3 Volume detected
> [ INFO  ] Installing on first host
>            Please provide storage domain name. [hosted_storage]:
>            Local storage datacenter name is an internal name
>            and currently will not be shown in engine's admin UI.
>            Please enter local datacenter name [hosted_datacenter]:
> ——
>
> Concerned about the "Local storage datacenter name is an internal name and currently will not be shown in engine's admin UI” message… I want to use a second distributed Gluster volume (name = “vmdata”) for VM storage if I can, and don’t want to mess up the install… What should I consider when setting names for the storage domain name and local datacenter names?

You can safely go with the defaults here.

To set up a second storage domain (using gluster volume) - once the 
engine VM is up and running, you can use the user interface to create 
the domain (vmdata).
Note: replica 3 gluster volume is recommended to use as storage domain


> Thanks,
> Will
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