Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt/gluster storage questions for 2-3 node datacenter

2014-08-29 Thread David King
Paul, Thanks for the response. You mention that the issue is orphaned files during updates when one node is down. However I am less concerned about adding and removing files because the file server will be predominately VM disks so the file structure is fairly static. Those VM files will be

Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt/gluster storage questions for 2-3 node datacenter

2014-08-29 Thread Vijay Bellur
On 08/29/2014 07:34 PM, David King wrote: Paul, Thanks for the response. You mention that the issue is orphaned files during updates when one node is down. However I am less concerned about adding and removing files because the file server will be predominately VM disks so the file structure

Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt/gluster storage questions for 2-3 node datacenter

2014-08-29 Thread Paul Robert Marino
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Vijay Bellur vbel...@redhat.com wrote: On 08/29/2014 07:34 PM, David King wrote: Paul, Thanks for the response. You mention that the issue is orphaned files during updates when one node is down. However I am less concerned about adding and removing files

Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt/gluster storage questions for 2-3 node datacenter

2014-08-29 Thread David King
Hi Paul, I would prefer to do a direct mount for local disk.  However I am not certain how to configure a single system with both local storage and bluster replicated storage. - The “Configure Local Storage”  option for Hosts wants to make a datacenter and cluster for the system.  I presume

[ovirt-users] oVirt/gluster storage questions for 2-3 node datacenter

2014-08-28 Thread David King
Hi, I am currently testing oVirt 3.4.3 + gluster 3.5.2 for use in my relatively small home office environment on a single host. I have 2 Intel hosts with SSD and magnetic disk and one AMD host with only magnetic disk. I have been trying to figure out the best way to configure my environment

Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt/gluster storage questions for 2-3 node datacenter

2014-08-28 Thread Paul Robert Marino
I'll try to answer some of these.1) its not a serious problem persay the issue is if one node goes down and you delete a file while the second node is down it will be restored when the second node comes back which may cause orphaned files where as if you use 3 servers they will use quorum to