Hi, I'm in at the deep end...
Looking for some advice on if this is possible - and what version I should try I with if so. We are a heavily VMware oriented company... but I am trying to get RHEV/oVirt in the door. Honestly I would prefer oVirt, but if they insist on enterprise support I go to Redhat. So I have had a play with VMware VSAN and know how it works. I am trying to more or less replicate this setup using open source. So VSAN uses 3 or more ESXi nodes, with local harddisks as the storage medium as a virtual SAN. The SAN performance is quite high as you put at least 1 SSD in each node. What is nice is you don't have the NAS element here. VMs are on the local storage, which is partially SSD, so performance is quite good. I went to a Redhat presentation on Redhat storage and GlusterFS and basically this acts as a big software defined NAS which does some pretty cool things, but that's not exactly what I need. I would like to build oVirt on top of CentOS Oss... that have local storage in them that is distributed and redundant in the event of a node failure. And I probably need to try and build this in a lab under Fusion on my Mac Book pro to begin with anyway (that bit I'm farily confident with) and if I get that working can probably get some older kit to try it out for real as a PoC to few people. So, I've set up oVirt before that should be ok, I haven't setup Gluster is there any documents that would help me down this road and make sure I start out using the best version. Any advice or pointers would be gratefully received. Thanks Bill Dossett Systems Architect Tech Central - Global Engineering Services T +44 (0)1923 279353 M +44 (0)777 590 8612 b<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> pitneybowes.com Pitney Bowes 6 Hercules Way | Leavesden | WD25 7GS | UK Learn more about Global Engineering Services<http://teamsite.inside.pb.com/sites/TCPPM/GES/SitePages/Home.aspx> In Engineering? Raise a ticket via Remedy Anywhere [HERE<teamsite.inside.pb.com/sites/TCPPM/GES/Lists/Create%20Incident/newIncident.aspx>] takes less than a minute CloudForms User Guide available [HERE<https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6219441/ManageIQ%20-%20User%20Manual%20PB%20v5.pdf>] ________________________________
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