Re: [Users] Gluster question

2014-02-09 Thread Itamar Heim
with gluster with replication you don't care (well less) if a host fails? *From:*Andrew Lau [mailto:and...@andrewklau.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 05, 2014 9:25 PM *To:* Maurice James *Cc:* users *Subject:* Re: [Users] Gluster question I'm not sure what you mean by NFS each host, but you'll

Re: [Users] Gluster question

2014-02-09 Thread Maurice James
Thanks -Original Message- From: Itamar Heim [mailto:ih...@redhat.com] Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 5:13 PM To: Maurice James; 'Andrew Lau' Cc: 'users' Subject: Re: [Users] Gluster question On 02/06/2014 04:29 AM, Maurice James wrote: OK I think I got it now. What I meant by NFS

Re: [Users] Gluster question

2014-02-06 Thread Sven Kieske
Hi, I think your problem is the following: if you put your shared storage on the same servers where the HA-VMs run and you lose one of those servers, you inherently also lose the disk space on this server. Gluster can, in theory, circumvent this. But afaik (read on this very ml) it is not

[Users] Gluster question

2014-02-05 Thread Maurice James
I currently have a new setup running ovirt 3.3.3. I have a Gluster storage domain with roughly 2.5TB of usable space. Gluster is installed on the same systems as the ovirt hosts. The host break down is as follows Ovirt DC: 4 hosts in the cluster. Each host has 4 physical disks in a RAID 5.

Re: [Users] Gluster question

2014-02-05 Thread Andrew Lau
There was another recent post about this but a sum up was: You must have power fencing to support VM HA otherwise they'll be an issue with the engine not knowing whether the VM is still running and not bring it up on a new host to avoid data corruption. Also make sure you have your quorum setup

Re: [Users] Gluster question

2014-02-05 Thread Maurice James
:17 PM To: Maurice James Cc: users Subject: Re: [Users] Gluster question There was another recent post about this but a sum up was: You must have power fencing to support VM HA otherwise they'll be an issue with the engine not knowing whether the VM is still running and not bring it up

Re: [Users] Gluster question

2014-02-05 Thread Andrew Lau
*Subject:* Re: [Users] Gluster question There was another recent post about this but a sum up was: You must have power fencing to support VM HA otherwise they'll be an issue with the engine not knowing whether the VM is still running and not bring it up on a new host to avoid data corruption

Re: [Users] Gluster question

2014-02-05 Thread Maurice James
: users Subject: Re: [Users] Gluster question I'm not sure what you mean by NFS each host, but you'll need some way to at least ensure the data is available. Be that be replicated gluster or a centralized SAN etc. On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Maurice James midnightst...@msn.com