[ovirt-users] storage redundancy in Ovirt

[Konstantin Raskoshnyi]

So what's the whole HA point then?

On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 4:29 AM Nir Soffer <nsoffer at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 2:05 PM Dan Yasny <dyasny at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 16, 2017 7:01 AM, "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 4:17 AM Dan Yasny <dyasny at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> When you set up a storage domain, you need to specify a host to perform
>>> the initial storage operations, but once the SD is defined, it's details
>>> are in the engine database, and all the hosts get connected to it directly.
>>> If the first host you used to define the SD goes down, all other hosts will
>>> still remain connected and work. SPM is an HA service, and if the current
>>> SPM host goes down, SPM gets started on another host in the DC. In short,
>>> unless your actual NFS exporting host goes down, there is no outage.
>>>
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>> There is no storage outage, but if you shutdown the spm host, the spm host
>> will not move to a new host until the spm host is online again, or you
>> confirm
>> manually that the spm host was rebooted.
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>> In a properly configured setup the SBA should take care of that. That's
>> the whole point of HA services
>>
>
> In some cases like power loss or hardware failure, there is no way to start
> the spm host, and the system cannot recover automatically.
>
> Nir
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>> Nir
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>>> On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Konstantin Raskoshnyi <
>>> konrasko at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Fernando,
>>>> I see each host has direct connection nfs mount, but yes, if main host
>>>> to which I connected nfs storage going down the storage becomes unavailable
>>>> and all vms are down
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 10:37 AM FERNANDO FREDIANI <
>>>> fernando.frediani at upx.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello Konstantin.
>>>>>
>>>>> That doesn`t make much sense make a whole cluster depend on a single
>>>>> host. From what I know any host talk directly to NFS Storage Array or
>>>>> whatever other Shared Storage you have.
>>>>> Have you tested that host going down if that affects the other with
>>>>> the NFS mounted directlly in a NFS Storage array ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Fernando
>>>>>
>>>>> 2017-04-15 12:42 GMT-03:00 Konstantin Raskoshnyi <konrasko at gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In ovirt you have to attach storage through specific host.
>>>>>> If host goes down storage is not available.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 7:31 AM FERNANDO FREDIANI <
>>>>>> fernando.frediani at upx.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, make it not go through host1 and dedicate a storage server for
>>>>>>> running NFS and make both hosts connect to it.
>>>>>>> In my view NFS is much easier to manage than any other type of
>>>>>>> storage, specially FC and iSCSI and performance is pretty much the same, so
>>>>>>> you won`t get better results other than management going to other type.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fernando
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2017-04-15 5:25 GMT-03:00 Konstantin Raskoshnyi <konrasko at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> :
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>>>> I have one nfs storage,
>>>>>>>> it's connected through host1.
>>>>>>>> host2 also has access to it, I can easily migrate vms between them.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The question is - if host1 is down - all infrastructure is down,
>>>>>>>> since all traffic goes through host1,
>>>>>>>> is there any way in oVirt to use redundant storage?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Only glusterfs?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>
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