Hello Nir, Thanks for the prompt answer.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 1:02 PM Nir Soffer <[email protected]> wrote: > > GlusterFS? > Yep, GlusterFS. Sorry, wrong abbreviation on my end.. > > > This will not be fast as local device passed-through to the vm > It will also be problematic, since all hosts will mount, monitor, and > maintain leases on this NFS storage, since it is considered as shared > storage. > If another host fail to access this NFS storage the other host will be > deactivated and all the VMs will migrate to other hosts. This migration > storm can cause lot of trouble. > In the worst case, in no other host can access this NFS storage all other > hosts will be deactivated. > This is same as NFS (internally this is the same code). It will work only > if you can mount the same device/export on all hosts. This is even worse > than NFS. > OK. Understood. No NFS / POSIXFS storage than. > > >> A. Am I barking at the wrong tree here? Is this setup even possible? >> > > This is possible using host device. > You can attach a host device to a VM. This will pin the VM to the host, > and give best performance. > It may not be flexible enough since you need to attach entire device. > Maybe it can work with LVM logical volumes. > I've got room to spare. Any documentation on how to achieve this (or some pointers where to look)? I couldn't find LVM / block device under host devices / storage domain / etc and Google search returned irrelevant results. - Gilboa > Nir > > B. If it is even possible, any documentation / pointers on setting up >> per-host private storage? >> >> I should mention that these workstations are quite beefy (64-128GB >> RAM, large MDRAID, SSD, etc) so I can spare memory / storage space (I >> can even split the local storage and GFS to different arrays). >> >> - Gilboa >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html >> oVirt Code of Conduct: >> https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ >> List Archives: >> https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VT24EBHC4OF7VXO7BGY3C2IT64M2T5FD/ >> >
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