On 21/12/16 11:44, Pavel Gashev wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to introduce a RFE that allows to use a local storage in multi
> server environments https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1406412
> 
> Most servers have a local storage. Some servers have very reliable
> storages with hardware RAID controllers and battery units.
> 
> Example user cases:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg36719.html
> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg36772.html
> 
> The best way to use local storage in multi server "shared" datacenters
> is exporting it over NFS. Using NFS allows to move disks and VMs among
> servers.
> 
> In order to improve performance, disk I/O bound VMs can be pinned to 
> a host with local storage. However there still is a performance
> drawback of NFS layers. Treating a local NFS storage as a local storage
> improves performance for VMs pinned to host.
> 
> Currently setting up of NFS exports is out of scope of oVirt. However
> this would be a way to get rid of "Local/Shared" storage types of
> datacenter. So that all storages are shared, but local storages are
> used as local.
> 
> Any questions/comments are welcome.
> 
> Specifically I'd like to request for comment on potential data
> integrity issues during online VM or disk migration between NFS and
> localfs. 
> 

Just let me say that I really like this as an end user.

Hope this get's in. This seems less overhead than a complete
hyperconverged gluster setup.


-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards

Sven Kieske

Systemadministrator
Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG
Königsberger Straße 6
32339 Espelkamp
T: +495772 293100
F: +495772 293333
https://www.mittwald.de
Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer
St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen
Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature

_______________________________________________
Devel mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Reply via email to