hi, Charles Russel according to your testing on gluster, do you think it is product ready cloudstack-over-gluster? gluster may not be so perfect now .
Eric. other way to use your gluster, manually you have to mount(gluster) on every hyptervisor and secondary storage, then mount --bind /gluster /var/run/sr-mount/ At 2012-06-07 01:16:47,"Charles Russell" <charles.russ...@kisinc.net> wrote: >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 >>
