[ovirt-users] Can ISO Domain be shared across multiple data centers? Ovirt 3.5, 3.6? Does not appear so

[Itamar Heim]

Import existing, don't try to create one.
Tal - maybe instead of error we should detect and ask user for ISO domain if they meant to import.

On Nov 5, 2015 9:03 AM, Robert Story <rstory at tislabs.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 19:16:58 -0500 Itamar wrote: 
> IH> On 11/02/2015 10:14 AM, Robert Story wrote: 
> IH> > On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 18:58:33 -0400 Liam wrote: 
> IH> > LC> Tried setting up NFS ISO domain which works on one host/local 
> IH> > LC> datacenter. I do not want to have to have multiple copies of iso 
> IH> > LC> files on all hosts. If I try to import pre-existing ISO domain, I 
> IH> > LC> either get an error that storage path exists or the dialog just 
> IH> > LC> does nothing. 
> IH> > 
> IH> > I had the same goal, but for multiple independent ovirt installs. My 
> IH> > work-around is to deal with it outside ovirt. 
> IH> > 
> IH> > - create generic nfs export for my iso mirrors 
> IH> > - create iso export points for each install 
> IH> > - add iso mount to each install 
> IH> > - manually (or using puppet, etc) add mirror mount on each host node 
> IH> > - run a script that creates a symlink in each ovirt iso mirror for 
> IH> > all the isos in the mirror export 
> IH> >    - 3.5 handles iso images in subdirectories, but 3.4 does not [1], 
> IH> > so the script creates symlinks for every iso image in the top level 
> IH> > of the iso export for 3.4, while only needing a symlnk to the distro 
> IH> > directory fro 3.5. 
> IH> > 
> IH> > It's a hack, but it works. 
> IH> 
> IH> This should work without any hacks. An ISO domain can be shared between 
> IH> multiple DCs or Engines. 
> IH> Tal? 
>
> When I try and create an iso domain with the same NFS path as another 
> domain I get 'the selected storage path is not empty[...] Either remove the 
> existing Storage Domain from this path, or change the storage path.' 
>
> Robert 
>
> -- 
> Senior Software Engineer @ Parsons