Most of them are outdated, but provide historical design context.
They are not user documentation and should not be treated as such.
Documentation is available here.
Self Hosted Engine Gluster Support
Summary
This feature enable the user to use Gluster storage for Hosted Engine data domain.
Owner
- Name: Sandro Bonazzola
- Email: sbonazzo@redhat.com
Detailed Description
UX changes
For GlusterFS storage types, specify the full address, using either the FQDN or IP address, and path name of the shared storage domain
--== STORAGE CONFIGURATION ==--
During customization use CTRL-D to abort.
Please specify the storage you would like to use (glusterfs, iscsi, nfs3, nfs4)[nfs3]: glusterfs
Please note that Replica 3 support is required for the shared storage.
Please specify the full shared storage connection path to use (example: host:/path): storage.example.com:/hosted_engine/glusterfs
Config files changes
Hosted engine storage domain can use backup-volfile-servers option to mount the gluster volume. This can be provided to the hosted-engine deployment via an answer file (using –config-append option), as the UX currently does not prompt for it
[environment:default]
OVEHOSTED_STORAGE/mntOptions=str:backup-volfile-servers=server2:server3
Benefit to oVirt
Users will be able to use Gluster storage as data domain for Hosted Engine.
Dependencies / Related Features
- Features/Gluster_Support
- Features/GlusterFS Storage Domain
- A tracker bug has been created for tracking issues:
Documentation / External references
Documentation
Configuring the Self-Hosted Engine
Configuring Storage
Like any other gluster storage domain, the hosted engine storage domain on glusterfs requires a replica 3 gluster volume. For users that want to avoid the 3 way replica, replica 3 arbiter volume is also supported.
Pre-requisites
- The GlusterFS Volume must be configured for Replica 3
- Replica 3 may be verified using gluster command line or using VDSM client / API applying http://gerrit.ovirt.org/36783:
gluster volume info <volname> --remote-host='<server-name>' vdsClient -s 0 glusterVolumesList volumeName='<volname>' remoteServer='<server-name>'
- Replica 3 may be verified using gluster command line or using VDSM client / API applying http://gerrit.ovirt.org/36783:
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The volume must be configured as per Gluster Volume Options for Virtual Machine Image Store
- Gluster volume has been started
- Gluster ports opened on all the gluster hosts
References
Testing
Release Notes
#Self Hosted Engine Gluster Support
Hosted Engine has now added support for [Gluster storage](/develop/release-management/features/sla/self-hosted-engine-gluster-support.html)