Yes that is my recommendation from my testing/research. At present Xen doesn't support gluster natively, but will support NFS. I am working on a possible over ride to Xen NFS implementation to natively support it but it's not even ready for a Alpha release at this point. So the trick is to abstract Gluster from XEN and present something it can consume. This configuration has not made it out of my lab system into production with gluster yet, and would recommend the same for you until you've tested every recovery scenario and performance scenario to ensure it meets and exceeds your goals.
Also, upgrade your gluster system to at least 3.3beta4. There is a big file locking issue with 3.2.6 which will pause all VM's during snapshots. Keep in mind, every brick post 3.3 for gluster must be on the exact same code base or it will not work. Charles Russell Senior Consulting Engineer Knowledge Information Solutions, Inc. Phone: (757) 275-7523 Cell: (757) 647-6236 Fax: (757) 486-2318 -----Original Message----- From: Eric [mailto:epretori...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 1:11 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Cloudstack 3.0.2: Specifying NFS ver. 3 Charles: Are you recommending that I create an NFS-Gluster proxy [as a temporary work around]? I'd mount the Gluster volume locally (on the compute host) but there doesn't appear to be an option [in the Web interface] to use local file systems in Basic installations... TIA, Eric P. ----- Original Message ----- > From: Charles Russell <charles.russ...@kisinc.net> > To: "cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org" > <cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org> > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 5:35 AM > Subject: Re: Cloudstack 3.0.2: Specifying NFS ver. 3 > > Stand up another system, install fuse libs, mount gluster, and present > that volume as the expected nfs. > > Gluster can also be changed to nfs3 but i was very flaky. > > Sent via DroidX2 on Verizon Wireless™ > > > > Charles Russell > Senior Consulting Engineer > Knowledge Information Solutions, Inc. > P: (757) 275-7523 > M: (757) 647-6236 > F: (757) 486-2318 > > -----Original message----- > From: Eric <epretori...@yahoo.com> > To: "cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org" > <cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org> > Sent: Wed, Jun 6, 2012 06:10:32 GMT+00:00 > Subject: Cloudstack 3.0.2: Specifying NFS ver. 3 > > Is it possible to specify the NFS version protocol (i.e., mount -t nfs > -o vers=3 server:/export /mountpoint) when configuring the primary > storage for a basic installation? (The storage server in question is > utilizing GlusterFS 3.2.6 - which does not support NFS ver. 4.) > > TIA, > Eric Pretorious > Truckee, CA >
