<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpb45bb08yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:courier new, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div></div>
<div>Hi Markus,</div><div><br></div><div>this is one of the popular approaches in oVirt.</div><div><br></div><div>Currently I'm running oVirt (KVM with management layer) over a shared storage - gluster v6.3.</div><div><br></div><div>It's doable and if properly configured - you can rely on it without any issues.</div><div><br></div><div>Have you considered oVirt as a solution instead of pure KVM ?</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div>Strahil Nikolov<br></div><div><br></div>
</div><div id="ydp189125a4yahoo_quoted_2411097987" class="ydp189125a4yahoo_quoted">
<div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;">
<div>
В петък, 28 юни 2019 г., 10:54:49 ч. Гринуич-4, Marcus Schopen <lists@localguru.de> написа:
</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">does anyone have experience with gluster in KVM environments? I would<br></div><div dir="ltr">like to hold qcow2 images of a KVM host with a second KVM host in sync.<br></div><div dir="ltr">Unfortunately, shared storage is not available to me, only the<br></div><div dir="ltr">two KVM hosts. In principle, it would be sufficient for me - in case of<br></div><div dir="ltr">a failure of the first KVM host - to start the guests on the second<br></div><div dir="ltr">host by hand without restoring the images from the nightly backup<br></div><div dir="ltr">first. The question is, is glusterfs a sensible solution here or<br></div><div dir="ltr">should one better use other approaches e.g. DRBD. I have read<br></div><div dir="ltr">contradictory statements about this, many advise against using gluster<br></div><div dir="ltr">for qcow2 images, some report no problems at all.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Cheers<br></div><div dir="ltr">Marcus<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">Gluster-users mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:Gluster-users@gluster.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gluster-users@gluster.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users</a><br></div></div>
</div>
</div></body></html>