[Gluster-users] Update: Support for GLUSTERFS storage domain in VDSM

[Deepak C Shetty]

Hi All,
     Just a quick update.

Support for GLUSTERFS_DOMAIN is now available in VDSM upstream. This 
helps VDSM exploit Gluster natively by using the QEMU's gluster block 
backend.
For those who are interested, the entire patchseries can be viewed @ 
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/project:vdsm+branch:master+topic:gluster_domain_support,n,z

As the commit msg says...

/This patch introduces a new storage domain of type//
//GLUSTERFS_DOMAIN, which uses gluster as the storage backend./

/In GLUSTERFS_DOMAIN, vdsm creates the storage domain by mounting//
//the gluster volume (akin to nfs mounting export path). VMs//
//created using this domain exploit the QEMU's gluster block//
//backend. Instead of accessing the vmdisk as a file path, it//
//accesses the vmdisk as a network disk device, served by gluster//
//server/volume./


With this the virt. stack comprising of qemu, libvirt, vdsm is now 
enabled to exploit GlusterFS natively.

The next step is to have support for Gluster Storage domain in oVirt web 
UI, which is a WIP, which once done will complete the entire virt. stack 
enablement for Gluster.
More details about this can be seen @ 
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/status:open+project:ovirt-engine+branch:master+topic:glusterfs,n,z

oVirt feature page for Gluster storage domain support can be viewed @ 
http://wiki.ovirt.org/Features/GlusterFS_Storage_Domain

thanx,
deepak

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