[ovirt-users] configuring gluster volumes/bricks from ovirt ??

[knarra]

On 05/04/2017 01:16 PM, Matthias Leopold wrote:
>
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> Am 2017-05-04 um 09:00 schrieb knarra:
>> On 05/04/2017 12:28 PM, knarra wrote:
>>> On 05/03/2017 07:44 PM, Matthias Leopold wrote:
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> i'm trying to get into this gluster thing with oVirt and added a 2
>>>> node gluster cluster to my oVirt 4.1 data center (just for testing, i
>>>> know it can't have HA with 2 nodes). provisioning of the storage
>>>> hosts did apparently work and my storage cluster seems to be
>>>> operational.
>>>>
>>>> i have very little understanding of glusterfs right know, but what i
>>>> think i am missing in the interface is a way to configure
>>>> volumes/bricks on my gluster cluster/hosts so i can use them for
>>>> storage domains (i want to use a "managed gluster volume"), the drop
>>>> down "Gluster" in "New domain" is empty. all i could find for storage
>>>> specific UI was the "Services" tab for the storage cluster which is
>>>> empty.
>>> once gluster hosts are added into the UI, user will be able to see
>>> volumes created on that hosts and to use them as storage domains. For
>>> this you will need to create a new storage domain with the mount path
>>> as gluster volume path.
>>>>
>>>> i'm not using a hyperconverged/self-hosted setup, my engine is
>>>> located on a dedicated server and i used iSCSI storage for data
>>>> master domain. my hosts (for hypervisors and gluster storage) where
>>>> installed on top of centos7, not using oVirt Node.
>>>>
>>>> does my setup make sense (it's only for testing)?
>>>> do i have to configure gluster hosts manually?
>>> yes, you will have to do this manually .
>> Installing gluster packages have to done manually. Once gluster packages
>> are installed you can create a gluster cluster from ovirt UI , add
>> gluster hosts and create volumes on them using the volumes tab.
>
> i'm sorry, but i'm missing all these "Gluster Volumes" UI components 
> that are mentioned in 
> http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/gluster/gluster-support/. 
> the tabs i see for my storage cluster are "General", "Logical 
> Networks", "Hosts", "Services", "Permissions". as i said "Services" is 
> empty, is that a problem?
>
> what's wrong?
>
> thx
> matthias
>
Does your cluster has both virt+gluster enabled or only virt ? If only 
virt you will not be able to see them.

If the cluster has both virt+gluster service enabled or only gluster 
service enabled you should be able to see them.