[ovirt-users] New user intro & some questions

[George Skorup]

Scott,

I'm sure you are completely correct. I do not want to run oVirt this 
way. I would very much prefer a dedicated machine for the engine, 
dedicated KVM nodes and dedicated storage/gluster nodes, or a real SAN. 
But this is the "you get this" and "make it work" that I get from upper 
management. So I'm going to continue testing 3.5.1 this way, and when 
it's too much load / performance sucks, then I can say, "I told you so".

I was reading through the planned features for 3.6 which says storage on 
the virt nodes will be supported. Again, I understand this is not 
optimal, but if I have to tell them this needs to wait for 3.6 to be 
released for this configuration to be supported, then so be it. And if 
performance still sucks, which I don't doubt, then... I told them so.

Anyway.. I was playing around today, and I'm not sure how or why, but 
the engine UI now shows the gluster volume stuff.. on the combined virt 
+ gluster nodes.



On 2/7/2015 1:16 PM, Scott Worthington wrote:
> On 2/7/2015 9:47 AM, George Skorup wrote:
>> On 2/7/2015 7:46 AM, Scott Worthington wrote:
>>> You can manage your oVirt gluster volumes from the oVirt engine UI.
>>>
>>> However, the gluster volumes cannot be on your oVirt hosts.  An oVirt Host
>>> cannot be an oVirt-managed gluster volume provider as well.  These are
>>> separate, physical hosts in oVirt <= 3.5.1.
>> Then why did it let me add the hosts as virt & gluster (default option 'both')
>> during setup if it cannot be configured as such?
> The "Both" in the --== OVIRT ENGINE CONFIGURATION ==-- section of the
> engine-setup refers to if you will have "both" oVirt KVM Host clusters as well
> as Gluster Volume clusters.  "Both" does not mean that you will have the
> Gluster storage daemon and KVM on the same host, as that configuration is not
> supported nor recommended.
>
> Hope that helps.
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