[ovirt-users] Standalone Gluster Storage

[Beau Sapach]

We did use the backup-volfile-servers option but still had trouble.  We
were simply adding all servers in the cluster as backups, is there a best
practice that should be followed?

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Artem Tambovskiy <
artem.tambovskiy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I did exactly the same mistake with my standalone GlusterFS cluster and
> now need to take down all Storage Domains in order to fix this mistake.
> Probably, worth to add a few words about this in Installation guide!
>
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 8:44 PM, Beau Sapach <bsapach at ualberta.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> We've been doing some experimenting with gluster, and have built a
>>> stand-alone gluster cluster (not managed by oVirt).  We've been able to
>>> create a storage domain backed by that gluster cluster and run VMs with
>>> their disks on that storage.
>>>
>>> The problem we have is that when we take a gluster node down for
>>> updates, maintenance etc. the entire storage domain goes offline in oVirt.
>>> Other gluster clients, that is servers connecting directly to the gluster
>>> cluster don't seem to notice if one node goes offline.
>>>
>>> Is anyone else using gluster storage in oVirt that is not managed within
>>> oVirt?
>>>
>>
>> Did you set also the backup-volfile-servers mount option?
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
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Beau Sapach
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