Also is it best to run the hosted engine on a dedicated server or as a self
hosted VM?

Thanks

On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 at 10:57, Brain Recursion <brainrecurs...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have a small oVirt cluster running but I have been having problems with
> the storage and would like to completely start again with the storage
> infrastructure. Currently for storage I have a single server running
> windows storage server serving oVirt via iSCSI.  I also have a smaller
> storage server which is currently not used. The oVirt cluster is not
> running a production environment but ideally I do not want to have to power
> it all off to patch the storage servers and oVirt cluster.
>
> 1x storage server, raid 10 24TB usable, 2x 10Gb ethernet
> 1x storage server, raid 10 4TB usable, 4x 1Gb ethernet
> 8x oVirt hosts, 1x10Gb ethernet on each
> 1x 24port 10Gb switch
>
> What would be the best way to utilise the storage servers?
> I was thinking about sticking CentOS on both servers and running Gluster
> with a 4TB replicated volume across both servers for the hosted engine and
> other critical VMs and then a 20TB non-replicated Gluster volume running on
> just the larger storage server for non critical VMs. I have another spare
> server which i could potentially use as a arbiter node. Would this work or
> would I have huge problems as the hardware performance of each storage
> server is so different?
>
> Any advice appreciated.
>
_______________________________________________
Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org
To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org
Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/
oVirt Code of Conduct: 
https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/
List Archives: 
https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/MP54SL5SJ7C4G3OVNMPEQRYA3FSAMSHD/

Reply via email to