<div dir="ltr">Hi José,<div> This has been asked for many many times. Heketi was designed to "rule them all". Heketi was never designed for systems that have been setup already because the permutations of possibilities of configurations could be extensive to figure out how to manage. It is like creating a Ceph Rados system by yourself, then asking the pool manager to figure out what you did. If instead Ceph is viewed as a collection of the access+pool+storage and not as individual parts, then it all works well and is predictable. In the same way, it should not be viewed as Heketi managing GlusterFS, but Heketi/GlusterFS instead. Once this view is accepted (which is what users want, but old school gluster users have a hard time with), then what Heketi currently does makes perfect sense.<div><br></div><div>So, back to the question, no, Heketi does not and will never manage such a model. Any software that manages such a configuration would be hard to productize and guarantee. Can you make a hack that does it? Maybe, but reliability and simplicity is what Heketi is after.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Hope this answers your question.</div><div><br></div><div>- Luis</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Jose A. Rivera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jarrpa@redhat.com" target="_blank">jarrpa@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey Luis, et al.,<br>
<br>
I talked to Ashiq about $SUBJECT, and he raised some concerns.<br>
Apparently heketi can not load/import nodes that are already part of a<br>
Gluster cluster? E.g. if I have an existing cluster with all the nodes<br>
already peer probed, heketi will try to redo the probe and then fail<br>
when it comes back already in peer list? This seems odd to me, but if<br>
so sounds like a relatively easy thing to change. Thoughts?<br>
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--Jose<br>
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