On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 4:47 PM Simon Nussbaum <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all > > We are very happily running a hyperconverged gluster ovirt setup since > beginning of 2016. Because we couldn't afford 3 well-equipped servers, > we've set-up replica 3 with one arbiter gluster cluster. Back then the > gluster integration in oVirt wasn't where it is today. We did not add the > arbiter node to oVirt. Since then a lot changed and we suspect that from > time to time we run into problems because we haven't added the arbiter node > as a host to oVirt. We also think that we may profit from features and > higher visibility in oVirt when it is aware of all gluster nodes. Now, we > are thinking of adding the third, the arbiter host. Today we are using > oVirt 4.2.0.2 and GlusterFS 3.12 on CentOS 7.4. We see two ways to > accomplish this: > 1) Add it as a new host > 2) Import it as the discovered host in Compute >> Clusters >> OurCluster > > The questions we have: > * First of all, is this a good idea anyway? > It helps that oVirt engine is aware of the hosts that it is managing. For instance, to ensure that quorum is not lost when a host is fenced. * Do we need to install vdsmd on the arbiter node? > Yes, vdsm (and vdsm-gluster) is needed on the node * What is or is there difference between the two ways? Will it discover the > gluster configuration or break it? > You can either add or import. Import helps when you have an entire cluster to be added > Before we break it we would love to hear what you guys think. > > Thanks a lot > Simon > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/Y3Y7WLMVE7YRPICGE7J7MSJCQXGHUOTY/ >
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