Unfortunately there is not a lot of info out there about ideal hardware
configs for hyperconverged oVirt (at least not that I have found to date,
and believe me I've looked).  If you have enough drives and especially if
they are spinning disks as far as I know your best option would likely be
to do a RAID-10 config to make up a single glusterfs brick on each physical
server.  Raid-10 will add some performance benefits and also give you some
options to replace failed disks without bringing the brick offline.  The
downfall is that you waste a ton of usable space with Raid + gluster
because each offer redundancy.

I'm about to build a 3 node hyperconverted oVirt setup on Dell R720s
myself, but I'm planning on using two 2Tb SSDs in JBOD configuration per
host w/ a gluster replica 3.  I've gone back and forth on using JBOD or
Raid config with SSDs and never did get a clear answer (online or asking on
this mailing list).  SSDs are too expensive right now to lose half usable
space to raid then another half or more to gluster replication.

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 7:17 PM, <william.doss...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> seems that is mostly for a lab setup.  I've got some real hardware I am
> going to try this out on as a PoC, 5 Dell R720s with 12 TB raw storage in
> each.  Just wondered if there was a guide to the hardware setup of my
> storage that I am missing?  Should I configure the storage as hardware RAID
> before I start installing the Nodes?  I did setup glusterfs cluster 3 years
> ago as well but memory fails me on how I had the RAID controller setup if
> at all.
>
> Thanks
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