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

[Sahina Bose]

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Mike DePaulo <mikedep333 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I tried both of the following:
> 1. Having only a boot partition and a PV for the OS that does not take
> up the entire disk, and then specifying "sda" in Hosted Engine Setup.
> 2. Having not only a boot partition and a PV for the OS, but also an
> empty (and not formatted) /dev/sda3 PV that I created with fdisk.
> Then, specfying "sda3" in Hosted Engine Setup.
>
> Both attempts resulted in errors like this:
> failed: [centerpoint.ad.depaulo.org] (item=/dev/sda3) => {"failed":
> true, "failed_when_result": true, "item": "/dev/sda3", "msg": "
> Device /dev/sda3 not found (or ignored by filtering).\n", "rc": 5}
>

Can you provide gdeploy logs? I think, it's at ~/.gdeploy/gdeploy.log


>
> It seems like having gluster bricks on the same disk as the OS doesn't
> work at all.
>
> I am going to buy separate OS SSDs.
>
> -Mike
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 6:22 AM, Mike DePaulo <mikedep333 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
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