[ovirt-users] Re: Replica Question

2020-09-30 Thread C Williams
Thank You Strahil !! On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 12:21 PM Strahil Nikolov wrote: > In your case it seems reasonable, but you should test the 2 stripe sizes > (128K vs 256K) before running in production. The good thing about replica > volumes is that you can remove a brick , recreate it from cli and

[ovirt-users] Re: Replica Question

2020-09-30 Thread Strahil Nikolov via Users
In your case it seems reasonable, but you should test the 2 stripe sizes (128K vs 256K) before running in production. The good thing about replica volumes is that you can remove a brick , recreate it from cli and then add it back. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov В сряда, 30 септември 2020

[ovirt-users] Re: Replica Question

2020-09-30 Thread C Williams
Hello, I am planning to use (6) 1 TB disks in a hardware RAID 6 array which will yield 4 data disks per oVirt Gluster brick. However. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_gluster_storage/3.5/html-single/administration_guide/index#sect-Disk_Configuration --- states "For RAID 6,

[ovirt-users] Re: Replica Question

2020-09-29 Thread C Williams
Strahil, Once Again Thank You For Your Help ! On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 11:29 AM Strahil Nikolov wrote: > One important step is to align the XFS to the stripe size * stripe width. > Don't miss it or you might have issues. > > Details can be found at: >

[ovirt-users] Re: Replica Question

2020-09-29 Thread C Williams
Strahil, Thank You For Your Help ! On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 11:24 AM Strahil Nikolov wrote: > > More questions on this -- since I have 5 servers . Could the following > work ? Each server has (1) 3TB RAID 6 partition that I want to use for > contiguous storage. > > Mountpoint for RAID 6

[ovirt-users] Re: Replica Question

2020-09-29 Thread Strahil Nikolov via Users
One important step is to align the XFS to the stripe size * stripe width. Don't miss it or you might have issues. Details can be found at:  https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_gluster_storage/3.5/html-single/administration_guide/index#sect-Disk_Configuration Best Regards,

[ovirt-users] Re: Replica Question

2020-09-29 Thread Strahil Nikolov via Users
More questions on this -- since I have 5 servers . Could the following work ?   Each server has (1) 3TB RAID 6 partition that I want to use for contiguous storage. Mountpoint for RAID 6 partition (3TB)  /brick   Server A: VOL1 - Brick 1                                  directory  

[ovirt-users] Re: Replica Question

2020-09-29 Thread C Williams
Hello, We have decided to get a 6th server for the install. I hope to set up a 2x3 Distributed replica 3 . So we are not going to worry about the "5 server" situation. Thank You All For Your Help !! On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 5:53 PM C Williams wrote: > Hello, > > More questions on this --

[ovirt-users] Re: Replica Question

2020-09-28 Thread C Williams
Hello, More questions on this -- since I have 5 servers . Could the following work ? Each server has (1) 3TB RAID 6 partition that I want to use for contiguous storage. Mountpoint for RAID 6 partition (3TB) /brick Server A: VOL1 - Brick 1 directory

[ovirt-users] Re: Replica Question

2020-09-28 Thread C Williams
Strahil, Thank You For Your Help ! On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 4:01 PM Strahil Nikolov wrote: > You can setup your bricks in such way , that each host has at least 1 > brick. > For example: > Server A: VOL1 - Brick 1 > Server B: VOL1 - Brick 2 + VOL 3 - Brick 3 > Server C: VOL1 - Brick 3 + VOL 2 -

[ovirt-users] Re: Replica Question

2020-09-28 Thread Strahil Nikolov via Users
You can setup your bricks in such way , that each host has at least 1 brick. For example: Server A: VOL1 - Brick 1 Server B: VOL1 - Brick 2 + VOL 3 - Brick 3 Server C: VOL1 - Brick 3 + VOL 2 - Brick 2 Server D: VOL2 - brick 1 The most optimal is to find a small system/VM for being an arbiter and

[ovirt-users] Re: Replica Question

2020-09-28 Thread C Williams
Thanks Jayme ! I'll read up on it. Thanks Again For Your Help !! On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 1:42 PM Jayme wrote: > It might be possible to do something similar as described in the > documentation here: >

[ovirt-users] Re: Replica Question

2020-09-28 Thread Jayme
It might be possible to do something similar as described in the documentation here: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_gluster_storage/3.4/html/administration_guide/creating_arbitrated_replicated_volumes#sect-Create_Multiple_Arbitrated_Volumes -- but I'm not sure if oVirt HCI

[ovirt-users] Re: Replica Question

2020-09-28 Thread C Williams
Jayme, Thank for getting back with me ! If I wanted to be wasteful with storage, could I start with an initial replica 2 + arbiter and then add 2 bricks to the volume ? Could the arbiter solve split-brains for 4 bricks ? Thank You For Your Help ! On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 12:05 PM Jayme wrote:

[ovirt-users] Re: Replica Question

2020-09-28 Thread Jayme
You can only do HCI in multiple's of 3. You could do a 3 server HCI setup and add the other two servers as compute nodes or you could add a 6th server and expand HCI across all 6 On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 12:28 PM C Williams wrote: > Hello, > > We recently received 5 servers. All have about 3 TB