[ovirt-users] Re: Hyperconverged Ovirt + ZFS

2018-11-16 Thread Thomas Simmons
Hello Donny, I also am familiar with ZFS and am not familiar with VDO at all. I took a quick look at VDO, but it's something to look into. It sounds like VDO is more of a layer above RAID, whereas I'm looking for something to implement the RAID. Apart from all of the other features provided by

[ovirt-users] Re: Hyperconverged Ovirt + ZFS

2018-11-16 Thread Thomas Simmons
Hello Darrell, I can report back that after making all of the config changes you noted, deployment completed and hosted engine is up and running! Hyperconverged Ovirt 4.2 on ZFS! Thank you sir! On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 6:09 PM Darrell Budic wrote: > I did this in the past and didn’t have any

[ovirt-users] Re: Hyperconverged Ovirt + ZFS

2018-11-16 Thread Darrell Budic
Well, personally I know ZFS and I don’t know VDO. Going to have to check it out now that I know it exists, sounds interesting to have it at the dm layer. I don’t use it exclusively either, but have been finding it useful for compression. What is your source for the statement that COW

[ovirt-users] Re: Hyperconverged Ovirt + ZFS

2018-11-16 Thread Donny Davis
Why not just use the built in stuff like VDO. What benefits does ZFS bring for the use case? For most vm based workloads ZFS is the opposite of ideal over the lifecycle of a VM. COW filesystems have downsides over time. On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 6:09 PM Darrell Budic wrote: > I did this in the

[ovirt-users] Re: Hyperconverged Ovirt + ZFS

2018-11-15 Thread Darrell Budic
I did this in the past and didn’t have any trouble with gluster/ZFS, but 4.2.x probably does more validation. I recommend these settings on your zfs volumes, I set mine at the root(v0 here) and let them inherit: required: v0xattr sa local v0acltype