On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Joop <jvdw...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 1-12-2015 22:59, Gervais de Montbrun wrote: > > Is it possible to setup the hypervisor hosts themselves as NFS servers to > create Storage (I realize that this will play havoc with the HA). We do > have an NFS server that we will be upgrading to add storage and faster > drives, but I was thinking that I may be able to use the internal storage > of the hypervisors themselves as a short term stopgap and then migrate vm's > to the upgraded NFS server later. Will that even work, or will it break > somehow? > > As Nir pointed out its possible. > I'm using such a setup at home where a NAS provides NFS storage for > hosted-engine and also iso/export/data domains for VMs. Besides that I have > an NFS server on my host for VMs which need a bit of disk throughput, its > got a nice SSD in it. Moving VM disks from the SSD storage domain to the > 'slow' storage domain on the NAS and vice versa works fine. > Problem with these kind of setups is redundancy which is ofcourse > non-existant :-) > > Take care that up to and including RHEL 7 mounting exports provided by the localhost NFS-server can lead to deadlocks so it's not a recommended choice. A loopback iSCSI target should be more reliable on this side. http://linux-iscsi.org/wiki/Loopback
> Regards, > > Joop > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >
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