[ovirt-users] Wishlist - Mix gluster and local storage in same data center

[Liam Curtis]

Great..thanks all very much for insight and advice. Keep up the great work.
This is a very vibrant and supportive community.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Barak Korren <bkorren at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 11 November 2015 at 01:02, Liam Curtis <lcurtis at datto.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for this info! Would be great if the temporary storage could
> > ultimately be made to be persistent
>
> Having persistent data on local storage will make your life very hard
> when the time comes around to secure and back up that important data.
> I think you can enjoy both worlds by using temporary local storage for
> I/O-intensive calculation, and then store the important final results
> to a central storage you can easily secure and back up.
> If what you want to do is pool together your local storage to get
> something that looks like a cheap central storage, then you are in the
> realm of ceph/gluster/hyper-converge. There is a performance and
> complexity overhead to using those technologies. (And not everything
> is supported by oVirt yet)
>
> --
> Barak Korren
> bkorren at redhat.com
> RHEV-CI Team
>
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