[ovirt-users] Storage Diversity Options oVirt 3.6

[Clint Boggio]

Thank you Simone !

> On Mar 22, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Clint Boggio <clint at theboggios.com> wrote:
>> Greetings all, and Happy Friday;
>> 
>> I'm running oVirt 3.6 management engine that is currently overseeing 4
>> compute nodes, attached to iSCSI storage over Infiniband. The compute
>> nodes have 8 hot-swap hard drive slots, with each only having 2 slots
>> occupied in a hardware RAID array level one for the hypervisor to live
>> on.
>> 
>> Would it be possible for me to set up each compute node with a second
>> array in the remaining 6 hot-swap slots, and utilize that new space for
>> a nice fault tolerant GlusterFS storage array ?
> 
> That schema is called hyper-converged.
> Please see:
> https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/virt_iaas_ovirt_hyperconverge/attachments/slides/1119/export/events/attachments/virt_iaas_ovirt_hyperconverge/slides/1119/presentation_fosdem.pdf
> 
> Take care that currently it's not production ready.
>  
>> 
>> 1. Would the system allow me to add the Gluster storage to the existing
>> datacenter/cluster that is currently using iSCSI ?
>> 
>> 2. Would I be able to configure all aspects of the Gluster
>> environment(except the hardware RAID array)through the GUI ?
>> 
>> 3. What hardware RAID level would be optimal for  this configuration ?
>> (RHEV documentation says RAID 6 is "Mandatory")
>> 
>> 4. Will the system support live migration between storage domains ?
>> 
>> I'm reading through the gluster documentation now to get a better
>> understanding of it's inner workings. Is there a good source for Gluster
>> on oVirt that i can reference as well ?
>> 
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