Alex, Suggestion for use GlusterFS to oVirt, look:
http://www.gluster.org/2012/07/installing-ovirt-3-1-and-glusterfs-using-either-nfs-or-posix-native-file-system-node-install-2/ Marcelo Barbosa *mr.marcelo.barb...@gmail.com* On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Alexandre Santos <santosa...@gmail.com>wrote: > 2013/1/9 Karli Sjöberg <karli.sjob...@slu.se>: > > tis 2013-01-08 klockan 11:03 -0500 skrev Yeela Kaplan: > > > > So, first of all, you should know that resizing a disk is not yet > supported > > in oVirt. > > If you decide that you must use it anyway, you should know in advance > that > > it's not recommended, > > and that your data is at risk when you perform these kind of actions. > > > > There are several ways to perform this. > > One of them is to create a second (larger) disk for the vm, > > run the vm from live cd and use dd to copy the first disk contents into > the > > second one, > > and finally remove the first disk and make sure that the new disk is > > configured as your system disk. > > > > Here you guide for the dd operation to be done from within the guest > system, > > but booted from live. > > Can this be done directly from the NFS storage itself instead? > > > > > > The second, riskier, option is to export the vm to an export domain, > > resize the image volume size to the new larger size using qemu-img and > also > > modify the vm's metadata in its ovf, > > as you can see this option is more complicated and requires deeper > > understanding and altering of the metadata... > > finally you'll need to import the vm back. > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Rocky" <rockyba...@gmail.com> > >> To: "Yeela Kaplan" <ykap...@redhat.com> > >> Cc: Users@ovirt.org > >> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 11:30:00 AM > >> Subject: Re: [Users] Best practice to resize a WM disk image > >> > >> Its just a theoretical question as I think the issue will come for us > >> and other users. > >> > >> I think there can be one or more snapshots in the WM over the time. > >> But > >> if that is an issue we can always collapse them I think. > >> If its a base image it should be RAW, right? > >> In this case its on file storage (NFS). > >> > >> Regards //Ricky > >> > >> On 2013-01-08 10:07, Yeela Kaplan wrote: > >> > Hi Ricky, > >> > In order to give you a detailed answer I need additional details > >> > regarding the disk: > >> > - Is the disk image composed as a chain of volumes or just a base > >> > volume? > >> > (if it's a chain it will be more complicated, you might want to > >> > collapse the chain first to make it easier). > >> > - Is the disk image raw? (you can use qemu-img info to check) > >> > - Is the disk image on block or file storage? > >> > > >> > Regards, > >> > Yeela > >> > > >> > ----- Original Message ----- > >> >> From: "Ricky" <rockyba...@gmail.com> > >> >> To: Users@ovirt.org > >> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 10:40:27 AM > >> >> Subject: [Users] Best practice to resize a WM disk image > >> >> > >> >> Hi, > >> >> > >> >> If I have a VM that has run out of disk space, how can I increase > >> >> the > >> >> space in best way? One way is to add a second bigger disk to the > >> >> WM > >> >> and then use dd or similar to copy. But is it possible to stretch > >> >> the > >> >> original disk inside or outside oVirt and get oVirt to know the > >> >> bigger > >> >> size? > >> >> > >> >> Regards //Ricky > >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> Users mailing list > >> >> Users@ovirt.org > >> >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >> >> > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > Users@ovirt.org > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > Users@ovirt.org > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > Sorry for this a bit "off topic" but I've been "resizing" my VM just > by adding new disks to the VM and then using the LVM tool or just > adding it to fstab. > I know that it's not a true resizing but it has been a good solution > for me. Once a Oracle DB (a XE used for tests:-)) went down because my > disk went full (it was 8GB) and I added a new disk, moved the dbf to > this new disk and restarted Oracle, without having to reboot the VM. > > Alex > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >
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