[ovirt-users] VMWare VSAN like setup with oVirt

[Fernando Frediani]

Hello

Note that Gluster hasn't all the VSAN features yet so you will be able 
to replicate data.

Also I personally think replica=3 is overkill and waste of space for mos 
scenarios. 2 should be enough and give a raid 1 like.


On 31/01/2017 06:29, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
> Le 31/01/2017 à 09:15, Anantha Raghava a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are trying to create a setup that uses the internal disks of the
>> hosts / nodes, yet provide the high availability, replication and
>> failover using oVirt. The setup we are typing to build is close to
>> VMWare VSAN which allows for all the above just using the internal disks
>> of the ESXi servers.
>>
>> Can we achieve something similar with oVirt with Gluster?
>
> Absolutely. One of our oVirt setup is done this way.
> Three hosts are set up as glusterFS servers (replica-3), as well as 
> oVirt nodes.
> We choose to add a fourth host as an standalone engine, but you can 
> choose to use a VM for that (hyperconverge setup).
>
> I have no experience on similar setup with a random number of nodes, 
> neither if this can be achievable (some kind of network RAID-10)... (?)
>