Your other hosts that aren’t participating in gluster storage would just
mount the gluster storage domains.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 6:44 PM Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hmm...
>
>
> Are you then saying, that YES, all host nodes need to be able to talk to
> the glusterfs filesystem?
>
>
> on a related note, I'd like to have as few nodes actually holding
> glusterfs data as possible, since I want that data on SSD.
> Rather than multiple "replication set" hosts, and one arbiter.. is it
> instead possible to have only 2 replication set hosts, and multiple
> (arbitrariliy many) arbiter nodes?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Strahil Nikolov" <[email protected]>
> To: "users" <[email protected]>, "Philip Brown" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 1:59:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Re: mixed hyperconverged?
>
> You can use   a distributed replicated volume of type 'replica 3 arbiter
> 1'.
> For example, NodeA  and NodeB are contain  replica  set 1  with NodeC as
> their arbiter and NodeD and NodeE as the second  replica set  2  with NodeC
> as thir arbiter also.
>
> In such case you got only 2 copies of a single shard, but you are fully
> "supported" from gluster perspective.
> Also, all  hosts can have an external storage like  your  NAS.
>
> Best Regards,
> Strahil Nikolov
>
> На 15 юли 2020 г. 21:11:34 GMT+03:00, Philip  Brown <[email protected]>
> написа:
> >arg. when I said "add 2 more nodes that arent part of the cluster", I
> >meant,
> >"part of the glusterfs cluster".
> >
> >or at minimum, maybe some kind of client-only setup, if they need
> >access?
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Philip Brown" <[email protected]>
> >To: "users" <[email protected]>
> >Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 10:37:48 AM
> >Subject: [ovirt-users] mixed hyperconverged?
> >
> >I'm thinking of doing an SSD based hyperconverged setup (for 4.3), but
> >am wondering about certain design issues.
> >
> >seems like the optimal number is 3 nodes for the glusterfs.
> >but.. I want 5 host nodes, not 3
> >and I want the main storage for VMs to be separate iSCSI NAS boxes.
> >Is it possible to have 3 nodes be the hyperconverged stuff.. but then
> >add in 2 "regular" nodes, that dont store anything and arent part of
> >the cluster?
> >
> >is it required to be part of the gluster cluster, to also be part of
> >the ovirt cluster, if thats where the hosted-engine lives?
> >or can I just have the hosted engine be switchable between the 3 nodes,
> >and the other 2 be VM-only hosts?
> >
> >Any recommendations here?
> >
> >I dont what 5 way replication going on. Nor do I want to have to pay
> >for large SSDs on all my host nodes.
> >(Im planning to run them with the ovirt 3.4 node image)
> >
> >
> >
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