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

[knarra]

On 05/04/2017 02:57 PM, Matthias Leopold wrote:
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> Am 2017-05-04 um 10:40 schrieb knarra:
>> On 05/04/2017 01:55 PM, Matthias Leopold wrote:
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>>> Am 2017-05-04 um 10:21 schrieb 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.
>>>>
>>> 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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> thanks for the screenshot, now i know how it should look like. i'm 
> attaching my screenshot. i'm missing a couple of elements, especially 
> "Cluster Node Type" (i don't have that in my VM cluster either). is 
> there an obvious explanation? next step would be to recreate the 
> gluster cluster with "clean" oVirt Nodes. maybe my storage hosts are 
> botched, i had glusterfs 3.10 packages installed on one of them 
> previously
>
> thanks a lot so far
> matthias

During the engine-setup when application mode was asked hope you have 
set "Both" .