On 30/04/18 11:43, Eduardo Mayoral wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to set up a new oVirt deployment with hosts that have > the VMs running on local attached storage. I understand this has the > requirement of having each host in its own cluster (and own datacenter, > it seems, I understand the need for the dedicated cluster, not so much > for the dedicated datacenter). > > At the same time, I would like to have some shared storage domains > so I can use it to export VMs or migrate them around hosts (probably in > three stages, first migrate VM storage from local to the shared storage > domain, second migrate the host (probably not possible to do a "hot" > migration, but at least "cold"), third migrate the VM storage from the > shared storage domain to the local storage domain of the new host). > > So I thought maybe I can deploy a datacenter in shared storage mode, > with one cluster per host. Use one or two shared storage domains for > master and as an stage area for planned VM migrations as explained > before, and then configure several storage domains, one per host, as > posix FS . I would then deploy the VMs on the local posix FS storage > domains and set affinity rules for the VMs to their hosts as needed. > > Would this work? Is there a better way of achieving local storage > and retaining the ability to share storage among hosts and migrate VMs? > >
Have you thought about using glusterfs? If hosts are physically close, that would probably be the best solution. -- Tony Albers Systems administrator, IT-development Royal Danish Library, Victor Albecks Vej 1, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. Tel: +45 2566 2383 / +45 8946 2316 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
