[ovirt-users] GlusterFS Hyperconvergence

[Tiemen Ruiten]

Also, while I can imagine why fencing might be a problem, what would be the
issue with HA?

On 6 July 2015 at 16:52, Tiemen Ruiten <t.ruiten at rdmedia.com> wrote:

> Thanks Doron,
>
> I would initially start with a 3 host cluster, possibly adding more hosts
> later on. Is this enough to ensure integrity of the Gluster storage domain,
> eg. in case of host failure?
>
> What are recommendations (if they exist) for the type of Gluster volume
> for a 3-5 host cluster (replicated or replicated distributed, number of
> replica's)?
>
> Would this setup already leverage libgfapi instead of FUSE?
>
>
> On 6 July 2015 at 16:33, Doron Fediuck <dfediuck at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 06/07/15 15:03, Tiemen Ruiten wrote:
>> > Please note I will -not- be using Hosted Engine.
>> >
>> > On 6 July 2015 at 13:54, Tiemen Ruiten <t.ruiten at rdmedia.com
>> > <mailto:t.ruiten at rdmedia.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Hello,
>> >
>> >     I'm in the planning stage of setting up a new oVirt cluster, where I
>> >     would prefer to use the local disks of the hypervisors for a
>> >     GlusterFS storage domain. What is the current recommendation (for
>> >     version 3.5.x)?
>> >
>> >     I found this presentation which seems to suggest that it's possbile
>> >     with some
>> >     caveats:
>> http://www.ovirt.org/images/6/6c/2015-ovirt-glusterfs-hyperconvergence.pdf
>> >
>> >     And a few open bugs:
>> >
>> >     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177791
>> >     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177775
>> >     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177773
>> >
>> >     What I can't find is current information on if this setup is already
>> >     possible with 3.5.x or it's better to wait for 3.6. Could someone
>> >     enlighten me?
>> >
>> >     --
>> >     Tiemen Ruiten
>> >     Systems Engineer
>> >     R&D Media
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Tiemen Ruiten
>> > Systems Engineer
>> > R&D Media
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Hi,
>> most of the current work is focused in hyperconverged using hosted engine
>> and
>> this includes the installation and a few other features such as not
>> fencing hypervisors
>> to avoid killing running bricks.
>> If you do not want to use hosted engine, then you should be able to
>> create bricks
>> and manage them as a gluster volume which your setup should be able to
>> work with.
>> If you do not use HA and/or fencing you should be mostly ok with this use
>> case.
>>
>> Anything specific you're looking for?
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Tiemen Ruiten
> Systems Engineer
> R&D Media
>



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Tiemen Ruiten
Systems Engineer
R&D Media
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