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

knarra knarra at redhat.com
Thu May 4 08:40:18 UTC 2017


On 05/04/2017 01:55 PM, Matthias Leopold wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
>
I think you have selected the cluster and you are referring to the sub 
tabs for that cluster. There should be a main tab called 'Volumes' which 
is present. Are you not seeing that? I have attached screenshot for the 
same.

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