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

[Matthias Leopold]

Am 2017-05-04 um 10:21 schrieb knarra:
> On 05/04/2017 01:16 PM, Matthias Leopold wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
my storage cluster has only gluster service enabled

matthias