Ok. Got it now. 1. Setup Gluster *without* using ovirt 2. Configure Gluster to share via NFS 3. Configure ovirt nodes to use the storage via NFS 4. Create a Gluster only Cluster in ovirt
Super. I will consider adding an arbiter to it. Thanks, Hesham Regards, Indivar Nair On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:22 PM Hesham Ahmed <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Indivar, > > I did understand your question correctly, and I suggested the solution for > your use case. If you are starting a new oVirt setup, just configure > gluster nodes separately, create a volume for engine and share over nfs, > then install oVirt hosted engine on one of the nodes and use nfs as the > storage. Once engine is up add other oVirt nodes to engine and finally > create a new gluster only cluster and add gluster nodes to it to manage > gluster volumes. > > Do note that none of the above would be considered recommend environment > for oVirt, a better solution would be to use gluster replica 3 arbiter 1 > with arbiter on one of the ovirt nodes. You can configure different network > for gluster and oVirt management so that gluster uses 10g while oVirt uses > 1g nic. > > Regards, > > HSA > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 7:17 PM Indivar Nair <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Hesham, >> >> Sorry, I think I wasn't clear. >> >> We are not trying to set up HCI. >> *(We have two server hardware allocated as dedicated Gluster Nodes. And a >> few server hardware allocated as ovirt nodes.)* >> >> We want to the *ovirt nodes* to use the Gluster Storage as an *NFS >> Storage*. >> >> Regards, >> >> >> Indivar Nair >> >> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 8:48 PM Hesham Ahmed <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Create a new Cluster in oVirt and disable it's "Virt Service" while >>> enabling the "Gluster Service". Then add the gluster nodes to this >>> Cluster and you will be able to manage them using oVirt without using >>> them for virtualization. >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 5:43 PM Indivar Nair <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Hi All, >>> > >>> > We would like to set up a 2 node mirrored Gluster Storage using the >>> ovirt installation tools, but use it as an NFS storage. >>> > >>> > We want to do this for 2 reasons - >>> > >>> > 1. We have a high-speed link between both the Gluster Nodes which we >>> would like to use for brick replication rather than ovirt node's 1G link >>> > 2. We have fast SSD disks on the ovirt nodes which we would like to >>> use for local NFS Caching (FS Caching) on the VM Images. >>> > >>> > In short, we would like to manage Gluster stroage using the ovirt web >>> interface, but access the Gluster storage as an NFS Server. >>> > >>> > How can we do this? >>> > >>> > Thanks. >>> > >>> > Regards, >>> > >>> > >>> > Indivar Nair >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > 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/BGJXGNB7Y6U76I43VZIAFAHZZ74KWRRQ/ >>> >>
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