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<tt>Hi All,</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> Just a quick update.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Support for GLUSTERFS_DOMAIN is now available in VDSM
upstream. This helps VDSM exploit Gluster natively by using the
QEMU's gluster block backend.</tt><tt><br>
For those who are interested, the entire patchseries can be viewed
@
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/project:vdsm+branch:master+topic:gluster_domain_support,n,z">http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/project:vdsm+branch:master+topic:gluster_domain_support,n,z</a><br>
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</tt><tt>As the commit msg says...</tt><tt><br>
</tt>
<p><i><tt>This patch introduces a new storage domain of type</tt></i><i><tt><br>
</tt></i><i><tt>GLUSTERFS_DOMAIN, which uses gluster as the
storage backend.</tt></i></p>
<p><i><tt>In GLUSTERFS_DOMAIN, vdsm creates the storage domain by
mounting</tt></i><i><tt><br>
</tt></i><i><tt>the gluster volume (akin to nfs mounting export
path). VMs</tt></i><i><tt><br>
</tt></i><i><tt>created using this domain exploit the QEMU's
gluster block</tt></i><i><tt><br>
</tt></i><i><tt>backend. Instead of accessing the vmdisk as a
file path, it</tt></i><i><tt><br>
</tt></i><i><tt>accesses the vmdisk as a network disk device,
served by gluster</tt></i><i><tt><br>
</tt></i><i><tt>server/volume.</tt></i></p>
<p><tt><br>
With this the virt. stack comprising of qemu, libvirt, vdsm is
now enabled to exploit GlusterFS natively.<br>
</tt></p>
<p><tt>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.<br>
More details about this can be seen @
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/status:open+project:ovirt-engine+branch:master+topic:glusterfs,n,z">http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/status:open+project:ovirt-engine+branch:master+topic:glusterfs,n,z</a><br>
</tt></p>
<p><tt>oVirt feature page for Gluster storage domain support can be
viewed @ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.ovirt.org/Features/GlusterFS_Storage_Domain">http://wiki.ovirt.org/Features/GlusterFS_Storage_Domain</a><br>
</tt></p>
<p><tt>thanx,<br>
deepak<br>
<br>
</tt></p>
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