On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Hayley Swimelar <hay...@linbit.com> wrote:
> > > On 06/04/2016 10:40 PM, Barak Korren wrote: > >> >>> We are looking for advice on how best to have oVirt communicate with DRBD >>> Manage and we have come to two options: >>> >>> >> My vote would be for native support rather then a Cinder based one. I >> don't have any hard numbers, but it seems to me the adoption of >> OpenStack technologies for use with oVirt is not as widespread as one >> may hope. >> >> But what sort of user experience and system architecture is intended? >> Is configuration of volumes planned to be done directly from the oVirt >> UI? >> > > Once a DRBD Manage storage cluster is set up, oVirt would handle the > management of DRBD volumes. > > While oVirt can do a little Gluster volume management for now, it >> seems it was done because it some point it was thought that oVirt >> would be the primary management UI for Gluster. AFAIK Gluster is now >> getting its own UI. >> > > The DRBD Manage daemon ships with a command line utility which is the UI > for interacting with DRBD 9. I do not believe that there is a stand alone > DRBD GUI planned at this time. > Is using the CLI considered a 'stable API' ? (or perhaps it can output a JSON or something that can be considered as such)? > At least for now, the user most likely will prepare a DRBD Manage cluster > up to the point where it's ready to start creating/assigning volumes and > then oVirt will take over from there. > > As far as using DRBD for backing oVirt VMs, this seems to already be >> working. The oVirt CI system (which runs on top of oVirt) had been >> using a DRBD-backed NFS storage for years... >> >> > The most recent release of DRBD contains new features that allow it to > integrate more directly with virtualization/cloud platforms. So VMs could > have DRBD-backed storage without additional overhead from NFS. Via RADOS pools? Y. > > > -- > Hayley Swimelar > LINBIT | Keeping the Digital World Running > DRBD — Corosync — Pacemaker > +1-503-573-1262 x212 > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >
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