[ovirt-users] Hosted Engine Setup with the gluster bricks on the same disk as the OS

[Mike DePaulo]

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 9:00 AM, knarra <knarra at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 05/07/2017 04:48 PM, Mike DePaulo wrote:
>>
>> Hi. I am trying to follow this guide. Is it possible to use part of my
>> OS disk /dev/sda for the bricks?
>>
>> https://www.ovirt.org/blog/2017/04/up-and-running-with-ovirt-4-1-and-gluster-storage/
>>
>> I am using oVirt Node 4.1.1.1. I am aware of the manual partitioning
>> requirements. I am guessing I have to create an LV for the OS that
>> does not take up the entire disk during install, manually create a pv
>> like /dev/sda3 afterwards, and then run Hosted Engine Setup and
>> specify /sda3 rather than sdb?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Mike
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>
> Hi Mike,
>
>     If you create gluster bricks on the same disk as OS it works but we do
> not recommend setting up gluster bricks on the same disk as the os. When
> user tries to create a gluster volume using by specifying the bricks from
> root partition it displays an error message "Bricks in root parition not
> recommended and use force at the end to create volume".
>
> Thanks
>
> kasturi
>

Thank you very much. Is my process for doing this (listed in my
original email) correct though?

-Mike