On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Nux! <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13.02.2013 19:54, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: >> >> I'd vote for #2. But do the hypervisors use native Gluster? > > > Yes, the HV are CentOS 6.3, used this repo to install the native client on > them: > http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/kkeithle/glusterfs/epel-6/x86_64/ > > What confuses me is the "secondary storage VM", what does this VM do > exactly? Does it need to mount the NFS share, too? Because in this case > telling it to use 127.0.0.1 would get tricky.. >
So the SSVM copies templates from secondary storage to primary, and copies snapshots from primary to secondary. In addition it ages out snapshots, and provides a download interface for exportable templates as well as acquires templates and ISOs and writes them to Secondary Storage.
