[ovirt-users] Ovirt GusterFS assistance

[Sahina Bose]

On 03/24/2015 12:13 PM, Jonathan Mathews wrote:
> the gluster volume is raid 0 replicated over 3 nodes and yes you are 
> correct when one server goes down the volume stays up, but the storage 
> domain goes down and that is where I need to find a volume identity to 
> mount it by in storage domain.

Aah..ok. Maybe the/"/////backupvolfile-server" mount option would help you?

[+ Allon] for storage domain issue.


>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Sahina Bose <sabose at redhat.com 
> <mailto:sabose at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     What is the type of volume that you've created? Is it a replicate
>     volume?
>
>     # gluster volume info - should give you this information
>
>     If you're replicating the volume across 3 nodes, even when one of
>     the server goes down, your storage domain should still be UP.
>
>     thanks
>     sahina
>
>     On 03/23/2015 02:10 PM, Jonathan Mathews wrote:
>>     Hi I am trying to setup an Ovirt, Glusterfs, VM servers. I have
>>     followed examples on setting up Ovirt and they have helped me so
>>     far, but not the end point that I am looking for.
>>     The web sites are:
>>     http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/10/up-and-running-with-ovirt-3-5/
>>     http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/05/ovirt-3-4-glusterized/
>>     http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2012/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2012-lpc-virt-storage-virt-kvm-rao.pdf
>>
>>     I am running 3 HP micro servers and 2 HP DL360 G5
>>     The 3 micro servers are my glusterfs storage and have been
>>     provisioned for virt storage.
>>     The 2 DL360 are my processing machines.
>>
>>     Now my 3 gluster hosts are in one cluster, the volume is in up
>>     status and has been provisioned for Virt Storage. But the problem
>>     is that my mount point is directed to one server, so when that
>>     server goes down, the volume storage domain goes down. I am not
>>     sure whether there is a way of mounting it by a "volume
>>     identity", so when a server goes down the storage domain stays up.
>>
>>     With my 2 processing hosts, I have them in one cluster, but I
>>     have not gotten any where with this, as I want the Virtual
>>     machines to use the gluster volume as storage but use the
>>     processing hosts hardware for processing power.
>>
>>     I would appreciate any assistance.
>>
>>
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