[ovirt-users] Is it a plausible configuration?

[Kiril L]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> From: "Kiril L" <neohidra at gmail.com>
>> To: users at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 3:32:52 PM
>> Subject: [ovirt-users] Is it a plausible configuration?
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>> Would you please tell me if this configuration is doable or there is
>> something that i am missing?
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>> I would like to use only two servers (X and Y) for VDI and Gluster
>> based storage.
>> Hosted engine for oVirt and replicated volumes between X and Y for the
>> gluster storage. Is a third machine Z a must?
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> It works also with just two hosts but it's not that safe: a replica-2 GlusterFS volume affected by a split-brain issue could be not self-healing while with replica-3 you could rely on quorum enforcement just cause you are using an odd host number.
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> For oVirt 3.6 we are working on http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Self_Hosted_Engine_Hyper_Converged_Gluster_Support
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I do not like the risk part! In that case will have to wait for a
third machine then.

So in future there will be something useful for me but i did not get
it - what exactly will be different between ovirt 3.5 with quoum
enforcment and ovirt 3.6 with Hyper Converged Gluster Support?