----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sahina Bose" <sab...@redhat.com> > To: "Dusmant Kumar Pati" <dp...@redhat.com>, "Itamar Heim" > <ih...@redhat.com>, devel@ovirt.org, "Allon Mureinik" > <amure...@redhat.com>, "Oved Ourfali" <ov...@redhat.com>, "Liron Aravot" > <lara...@redhat.com>, "Omer Frenkel" > <ofren...@redhat.com>, "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzasl...@redhat.com>, "Roy Golan" > <rgo...@redhat.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 8:31:11 AM > Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Remote DataCenter/Cluster > > > On 08/25/2014 10:13 AM, Dusmant Kumar Pati wrote: > > On 08/21/2014 03:57 PM, Sahina Bose wrote: > >> > >> On 08/21/2014 03:42 PM, Itamar Heim wrote: > >>> On 08/21/2014 05:00 AM, Sahina Bose wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> We ran into a requirement where we need to mark a DataCenter or > >>>> Cluster > >>>> as remote. This is for the feature Gluster Geo-replication > >>>> management - > >>>> where the same oVirt instance will be managing both the master volume > >>>> and as well as the remote site volume > >>>> > >>>> The reason we want to call out a Datacenter as remote, is to ensure > >>>> that > >>>> the polling frequency on this is different from one that is > >>>> co-located. > >>>> > >>>> Is there a similar requirement for virtualization? > >>>> > >>>> thanks > >>>> sahina > >>> > >>> I thought in the gluster view there are no DCs, only clusters? > >>> (actually, i wonder if we shouldn't consider the same for the virt > >>> use case, and deprecate the DC entity, though that would be a major > >>> effort and not sure worth it). > >> > >> In fact, we were wondering if we need to bring in the concept of DC > >> for the gluster view and mark it remote...or just stick with flagging > >> cluster as Remote :) > > I think your second option looks better, considering gluster does not > > have any DC concept. Just stick with flagging cluster as Remote. > > Once managed by RHSC (either local or remote), almost all features of > > RHSC, should be applicable for that cluster as well. Isn't it? > > > > If we do introduce a Remote cluster, how would that affect the Data > Center for virt+gluster mode - having remote as well as local cluster? > > Thoughts?
i dont see any problem having a cluster flagged as remote, maybe we could use it also for different monitoring intervals if requested, but as first phase it could be used only for the gluster use case. > > >> Users may be more familiar with DC w.r.t DR > >> > >>> > >>> to your question, yes. there is a similar use case for virt - > >>> flagging a DC or Cluster and Storage as remote for a DR use case. > >>> though i don't think anyone spent cycles on modeling that > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Devel mailing list > >> Devel@ovirt.org > >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel