----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nathan Stratton" <[email protected]> > To: "Andrew Cathrow" <[email protected]> > Cc: "arch" <[email protected]>, "Users" <[email protected]>, "board" > <[email protected]>, "Dave Neary" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:57:35 AM > Subject: Re: [Users] What are you looking for from oVirt? > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Andrew Cathrow wrote: > > > What does your deployment look like - it's be great to understand > > how you're using it - eg. Linux guests only, Windows, size of > > deployment - do your users use poweruser portal etc. > > I have 2 deployments I am working on with two different companies. > > The first is two clusters (SJC and NYC) each with 20 boxes PXEBooted > to > a backend NetApp. All guests are Linux (Centos, RHEL, and Fedora). > One of > the unique things with the clusters is they use read only linux and > NFS > root. > > The 2nd is still in design stage, but is starting out with 3 clusters > (East / West US and Europe) each with 20 boxes. Each server is based > on > white label Xeon E5-2687W, 128GB RAM, 10GBase-T, and 12 SATA disks on > a > hardware RAID 6 controller. This is also going to use shared NFS read > only > root with PXEBoot from NetApps. > > I have been running GlusterFS on and off for 5 years and are looking > at > running GlusterFS on all the raw 300TB RAID6 in each server. Each > server > will be a brick, two servers with distribute for redundancy, 10 > distribute pairs then will be unified. I have been trying to use this > for > raw image store for years, but its just not ready, so we will use > NetApp > for that, however GlusterFS will be very handy for tier 2 bulk > storage. > > > GlusterFS and Quantum are certainly in the works, but in a separate > > thread I'd love to hear feedback on the API what the > > issues/enhancements are. > > Would you be able to post some initial comments on that? > > APIs are great today on the backend, we are looking at the ability to > modify the front end so we can tie it into our portal allowing users > to > manage their VMs seamless with the other services we offer.
So are you looking to extend the power user portal or something more? > > ><> > Nathan Stratton > nathan at robotics.net > http://www.robotics.net > _______________________________________________ Board mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/board
