[ovirt-users] Storage network clarification

[Sahina Bose]

On 01/19/2016 12:37 PM, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
> Hi Sahina,
>
> Le 19/01/2016 07:02, Sahina Bose a écrit :
>> The steps to make sure gluster uses separate network for data traffic :
>>
>> 1. Create a logical network (non-VM), and mark it's role as "Gluster"
>> 2. After adding the host via the ovirtmgmt hostname/ ip address, assign
>> this gluster network to your interface (with the storage sub-net)
>>   This step will initiate a peer probe of the host with this additonal
>> ip address.
>>
>> 3. When creating a volume after an interface/bond is tagged with gluster
>> network, the bricks are added using the gluster n/w's ip address. Now
>> when clients connect to the volume, traffic is routed via your gluster
>> network that's used by bricks.
>
> Does that mean that there's no way to reach this goal with an existing 
> volume, previously created, and that was (alas) using the management 
> network?


There's some ongoing work to replace network used by brick - 
http://review.gluster.org/#/c/12250/ and https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/51685/
[+Kaushal, Anuradha for further inputs and if there's any manual 
workaround possible]