[ovirt-users] Re: ovirt and gluster disk config

2018-05-23 Thread William Dossett
Hi Jayme, thanks for the info… yes I’ve been googling and googling… I run a few VMware VSANs at the moment so HCI is my specialty … even one in my basement  going to upgrade that to all flash soon as the 2TB disks are getting cheaper! I tried doing this a couple of years back as my post

[ovirt-users] ovirt and gluster disk config

2018-05-22 Thread william . dossett
Hey, been a few years since I looked at ovirt. 3 years probably and at the time I was looking for compute and storage all in one -and was advised not to basically. So Hyperconvergence is now a thing and want to try it out. I was looking at the blog - up and running with ovirt 4.1, but it

[ovirt-users] Re: ovirt and gluster network config

2018-06-09 Thread william . dossett
follow up to this... i've gotten past the initial bump... obviously need a completely unused volume to gdeploy gluster to. may be too early to comment, but I am in the middle of the lengthy play to deploy the hosted engine - and it looks like it is working. I oversized some of the volumes and

[ovirt-users] ovirt and gluster network config

2018-06-07 Thread william . dossett
Hi, I have my 5 ovirt nodes up and running and starting to move forward with actual ovirt and gluster setup. I am using gdeploy for deployment. the play book fails saying /dev/sdb is blacklisted by filter? I am following the blog up and running on the ovirt site. It mentioned adding #

[ovirt-users] Re: Tuning and testing GlusterFS performance

2018-08-02 Thread William Dossett
I usually look at IOPs using IOMeter… you usually want several workers running reads and writes in different threads at the same time. You can run Dynamo on a Linux instance and then connect it to a window GUI running IOMeter to give you stats. I was getting around 250 IOPs on JBOD sata

[ovirt-users] Re: Tuning and testing GlusterFS performance

2018-08-02 Thread William Dossett
some of the other work off my plate and work on this later this afternoon, will let you know any findings. Regards Bill From: Jayme Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2018 11:07 AM To: William Dossett Cc: users Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Tuning and testing GlusterFS performance Bill

[ovirt-users] Re: uploading ISOs

2018-08-01 Thread William Dossett
Chrome, I have allowed pop-ups -Original Message- From: femi adegoke [mailto:ov...@fateknollogee.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 8:13 AM To: users@ovirt.org Subject: [ovirt-users] Re: uploading ISOs What browser are you using to upload ISOs?

[ovirt-users] Re: uploading ISOs

2018-08-01 Thread William Dossett
. Is it correct that this does not need to be an ISO domain? It does not have to be NFS? Thanks, appreciate any guidance. Bill From: Gianluca Cecchi [mailto:gianluca.cec...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 7:02 AM To: Eyal Shenitzky Cc: William Dossett ; Idan Shaby

[ovirt-users] Re: uploading ISOs

2018-08-01 Thread William Dossett
Ok, why didn't I do that before ☹ Connection to ovirt-imageio-proxy service has failed. Make sure the service is installed, configured, and ovirt-engine certificate is registered as a valid CA in the browser. Installed the cert and looks like it is ok now, thanks! Bill -Original

[ovirt-users] Re: up and running with ovirt 4.2 and gluster

2018-07-30 Thread William Dossett
Same here… I am using Dell R710s with 8 disks, 2 x 1TB in RAID 0 and then 6 virtual disks, one per physical disks. I think you have to do it that way for the dell perc controller to present the disk to the OS but I haven’t actually tried not doing that so not sure.. anyway this works.

[ovirt-users] Re: adding hosts problems with GlusterFS

2018-07-30 Thread william . dossett
I did it from the UI. I've just removed and re-added the host and I can't see any thing different I could do while adding it. all the disks are locked. the brick is mounted in /gluster_bricks, but does not show in the bricks tab... actually I think it may have been in the new volume view

[ovirt-users] Re: up and running with ovirt 4.2 and gluster

2018-07-30 Thread william . dossett
I would be happy to work on documentation... not quite sure how I start doing that though. The previous post and others that detail the only actualy datastores needed are data and engine was helpful. Having an additional datastore for isos that would perhaps not need to be (frequently) backed

[ovirt-users] Re: up and running with ovirt 4.2 and gluster

2018-07-30 Thread william . dossett
Hi James... I'm in sort of the same position... I have 6 JBOD drives in each node. I am unsure if I am going to wind up with 6 data stores. I have 5 nodes and have other problems related to when I add those nodes further complicating the gluster issue. Hopefully someone can help clear this

[ovirt-users] Re: up and running with ovirt 4.2 and gluster

2018-07-30 Thread william . dossett
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[ovirt-users] Re: adding hosts problems with GlusterFS

2018-07-30 Thread william . dossett
unfortunately I can't access that bug with any of my redhat accounts. I tried to make a bugzilla account and it says it is restricted access to that bug, internal only. ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to

[ovirt-users] Re: Hosted Engine deploy failed on new HCI build

2018-07-30 Thread William Dossett
That happened to me twice… the second time I figure it out and it was networking. I am not familiar with the hosted-engine ---console… The person that helped me said to do the following: Run on your first host hosted-engine --add-console-password to set a temporary VNC password

[ovirt-users] Re: adding hosts problems with GlusterFS

2018-07-30 Thread william . dossett
I found the problem... with the cockpit deploy, all disks are blacklisted from multipath by a script called blacklist_all_disks.sh This does not happen when a host is added manually. To work around the problem edit /etc/multipath.conf add the second line to the file below... this makes

[ovirt-users] Re: trunked ports

2018-07-27 Thread william . dossett
just got back to this... the method I usee worked well. I used a 1GB copper port in my mgmt VLAN to set up oVirt with Gluster Got it all up and running then used 1 x 10 GB port to create my storage network I think created to logical networks, one tagged with my static VLAN and the other

[ovirt-users] adding hosts problems with GlusterFS

2018-07-27 Thread william . dossett
Hi, I setup my 3 host HCI cluster and things are going pretty good. I have a few issues though... one of them is that I added two more hosts to the three node cluster to make it a 5 nodes. This seemed to work fine until I went to create bricks. I have 6 x 2 TB disks for use as JBOD in

[ovirt-users] Re: Hosted Engine deploy failed on new HCI build

2018-07-31 Thread William Dossett
but happy to have a look with you if you want to ping me. Regards Bill From: Simone Tiraboschi [mailto:stira...@redhat.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 6:35 AM To: William Dossett Cc: Jayme ; users Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Re: Hosted Engine deploy failed on new HCI build On Tue, Jul

[ovirt-users] Re: adding hosts problems with GlusterFS

2018-07-31 Thread William Dossett
:48 AM To: Gobinda Das Cc: William Dossett ; Bill Dossett ; users Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Re: adding hosts problems with GlusterFS Try doing a multipath -ll and if that displays anything try flushing with multipath -F On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:55 AM, Gobinda Das mailto:go

[ovirt-users] Re: adding hosts problems with GlusterFS

2018-07-31 Thread William Dossett
Yeah, for sure, I think I made it over my last one yesterday…. Going to start building out my storage today. I had to get down into the OS and work with the logical volume manager commands a bit to clean up some of my mess and also figured out how to blacklist the disks on my 4th and 5th host

[ovirt-users] uploading ISOs

2018-07-31 Thread William Dossett
Hi, Before I go to the work of making my iso's available to the ovirt-engine so I can use the iso uploader cli. I haven't worked with ovirt for a while and the documents still refer to an ISO domain and engine-iso-uploader the former which I understand is not required now, just wondered if

[ovirt-users] Re: uploading ISOs

2018-08-01 Thread William Dossett
by system after about 15 secs. It is uploading to VMStore which has 498GB free of total 499 GB. Thanks Bill From: Eyal Shenitzky [mailto:eshen...@redhat.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 10:24 PM To: William Dossett Cc: users Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] uploading ISOs Hi

[ovirt-users] Re: Tuning and testing GlusterFS performance

2018-08-04 Thread William Dossett
Hey, thanks! Good catch! Going to have to take a look at that, will be working on it this weekend.. hopefully we can do this post creation. Thanks again Bill From: Jayme Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2018 5:56 PM To: William Dossett Cc: users Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Tuning

[ovirt-users] Re: Datacenter of several Hosts with Local Storage ? (share Logical Network)

2018-08-04 Thread William Dossett
Hi, I'm not sure but this sounds like you want to do Hyper-Converged infrastructure, HCI... so a cluster of hosts with local storage... There are a few of us working on testing this now. If this is what you are looking for I would highly advise looking at

[ovirt-users] Re: Tuning and testing GlusterFS performance

2018-08-04 Thread William Dossett
Thanks for the feedback, Could you log a bug to make it default by providing the user flow that you used. Also, I would be interested to know how you prepared the gluster volume for use - if it was using the Cockpit deployment UI, the volume options would have been set by default.

[ovirt-users] Re: Tuning and testing GlusterFS performance

2018-08-05 Thread William Dossett
I think Percs have queue depth of 31 if that’s of any help… fairly common with that level of controller. From: Jayme Sent: Sunday, August 5, 2018 9:50 AM To: Darrell Budic Cc: William Dossett ; users Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Tuning and testing GlusterFS performance I would have

[ovirt-users] Re: Tuning and testing GlusterFS performance

2018-08-05 Thread William Dossett
has failed me in the past, but this is feeling much more like a finished product than it used to. Regards Bill From: Jayme Sent: Sunday, August 5, 2018 10:18 AM To: William Dossett Cc: Darrell Budic ; users Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Tuning and testing GlusterFS performance I'm

[ovirt-users] Re: uploading ISOs

2018-08-01 Thread William Dossett
Not convinced  chrome is easy enough, done it many times... I used to use firefox but there's a few web apps I use that it does not play well with... One annoying thing about chrome is that if you clear your history and cookies, it blows away your certs as well. Not sure if FF does that or