Re: [ovirt-users] Using Microsoft NFS server as storage domain

2016-01-26 Thread Nir Soffer
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Pavel Gashev wrote: > Nir, > > On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 20:47 +, Nir Soffer wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Pavel Gashev >> wrote: >> > I've tried to reproduce the mirroring of active layer: >> > >> > 1. Create two thin template provisioned VMs from th

Re: [ovirt-users] Using Microsoft NFS server as storage domain

2016-01-25 Thread Pavel Gashev
Nir, On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 20:47 +, Nir Soffer wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Pavel Gashev > wrote: > > I've tried to reproduce the mirroring of active layer: > > > > 1. Create two thin template provisioned VMs from the same template > > on different storages. > > 2. Start VM1 > >

Re: [ovirt-users] Using Microsoft NFS server as storage domain

2016-01-22 Thread Nir Soffer
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Pavel Gashev wrote: > Nir, > > > On 21/01/16 23:55, "Nir Soffer" wrote: >>live migration starts by creating a snapshot, then copying the disks to the >>new >>storage, and then mirroring the active layer so both the old and the >>new disks are >>the same. Finally

Re: [ovirt-users] Using Microsoft NFS server as storage domain

2016-01-22 Thread Pavel Gashev
Nir, On 21/01/16 23:55, "Nir Soffer" wrote: >live migration starts by creating a snapshot, then copying the disks to the new >storage, and then mirroring the active layer so both the old and the >new disks are >the same. Finally we switch to the new disk, and delete the old disk. > >So probably

Re: [ovirt-users] Using Microsoft NFS server as storage domain

2016-01-21 Thread Nir Soffer
Adding Allon On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Nir Soffer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Pavel Gashev wrote: >> On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 18:42 +, Nir Soffer wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Pavel Gashev wrote: >> >> Also there is no option in >> oVirt web interface to

Re: [ovirt-users] Using Microsoft NFS server as storage domain

2016-01-21 Thread Nir Soffer
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Pavel Gashev wrote: > On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 18:42 +, Nir Soffer wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Pavel Gashev wrote: > > Also there is no option in > oVirt web interface to use COW format on NFS storage domains. > > > You can > 1. create a small di

Re: [ovirt-users] Using Microsoft NFS server as storage domain

2016-01-21 Thread Pavel Gashev
On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 18:42 +, Nir Soffer wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Pavel Gashev mailto:p...@acronis.com>> wrote: Also there is no option in oVirt web interface to use COW format on NFS storage domains. You can 1. create a small disk (1G) 2. create a snapshot 3. extend the d

Re: [ovirt-users] Using Microsoft NFS server as storage domain

2016-01-21 Thread Nir Soffer
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Pavel Gashev wrote: > Hello, > > First of all I would like to ask if anybody has an experience with using > Microsoft NFS server as a storage domain. > > The main issue with MS NFS is NTFS :) NTFS doesn't support sparse files. > Technically it's possible by enablin

Re: [ovirt-users] Using Microsoft NFS server as storage domain

2016-01-21 Thread Dan Yasny
inline On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Pavel Gashev wrote: > Hello, > > First of all I would like to ask if anybody has an experience with using > Microsoft NFS server as a storage domain. > > I have used one as an ISO domain for years. It wasn't great, but it was good enough. Never a data doma

[ovirt-users] Using Microsoft NFS server as storage domain

2016-01-21 Thread Pavel Gashev
Hello, First of all I would like to ask if anybody has an experience with using Microsoft NFS server as a storage domain. The main issue with MS NFS is NTFS :) NTFS doesn't support sparse files. Technically it's possible by enabling NTFS compression but it has bad performance on huge files wh