Thanks Christopher!

That will force me to have as many gluster storages as hosts? Or it will  allow
to have one gluster setup with each of the hosts accessing to the local storage?

I will investigate, but I'd prefer if I did not have to use any external
service at all (in the end, is just local storage)

On 05/11, Christopher Pereira wrote:
> On 08-05-2015 8:31, David Caro wrote:
> >[...]
> >The case is when you want to spin up vms from a template, but use them only
> >once and remove them afterwards (for example, running tests), if you had the
> >option to have a shared storage where you store the templates, and then a 
> >local
> >storage where you spin up the vms, that allows really fast (local) storage 
> >for
> >the vms and avoids you having to setup a clustered storage (gluster, etc) for
> >those vms that do not need any of those features.
> >
> >So is that already possible? (For other threads and what I've tested seems 
> >not)
> >Is that viable? Can it be implemented on ovirt?
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> You could use a local replica-1 gluster storage domain for this.
> replica-1 => no split brains + local performance + no complexity + no
> overhead + gluster benefits
> It just works fine.
> 
> PS: I'm currently researching the best way to live replicate local replica-1
> volumes by using geo-replication, adding a replica-2 brick, using libvirt
> blockcopy or oVirt API.
> 
> Best regards,
> Christopher.
> 

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