[ovirt-users] Why rbd support is not natively available just like glusterFS?

[Nir Soffer]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Gaetan SLONGO <gslongo at it-optics.com> wrote:
> Dear oVirt users,
>
> We are currently looking for a virtualization solution and oVirt seems to be a good choice for us.
> The problem is we have to deploy it on the top of a Ceph/RBD storage.
>
> Maybe I missed something but it seems Ceph/RBD block devices are not available in oVirt, just like GlusterFS. However Qemu supports it as a native storage backend. Could you explain why it is not available ?

Because we chose to consume ceph storage via cinder. This will make it
easier to use other
storage backends supported by Cinder in the future.

> We saw Ceph storage could be usable through OpenStack Cinder in the 3.6 version but we don't want/need to deploy an OpenStack infrastructure (and we don't found complete documentation about that).

Yes, you need to deploy Cinder to use ceph storage.

What documentation is missing?

Nir