[ovirt-users] Software RAID on oVirt Node

Chris Adams cma at cmadams.net
Fri Aug 4 19:20:46 UTC 2017


Once upon a time, Vinícius Ferrão <ferrao at if.ufrj.br> said:
> On typical deployment scenarios of oVirt which is the recommended RAID technologies for oVirt Node installation? Should I use controller based RAID or mdadm can be used instead? Is this recommended?
> 
> I’m asking this because other vendors requires hardware RAID, even those 100% based on CentOS, like XenServer. There’s not even a way to install it with mdadm (Software Raid).

I use Linux software RAID under oVirt just fine.  I'm not using oVirt
Node though (I just installed CentOS and then installed oVirt).  Note
that I have an iSCSI SAN for VM storage - things might be different if
you are planning to use the local disks for VMs (local storage or
Gluster).

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Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net>


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