Relationship between Red Hat Storage and RHEV

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Hi, I was wondering if someone can explain to me what'd be the relationship between RHEV and Red Hat Storage?

 

I've been trying to figure that out without finding a definitive answer.

 

Thanks in advance

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This isn't definitive.

 

1) Red Hat Storage GUI shares a lot of code with RHEV GUI

 

2) Some day, VM's will be able to use/live on RHS volumes

 

3) It makes sense for virtual machines to be able to use 'virtual storage' as part of a cloud

 

Right?

Hello guys,

 

That is an interesting question and I found myself thinking about it couple of times.

 

In wich layer the interaction would occur?

RHEV building a regular Storage Domain in a Gluster namespace and keeping virtual disk images as files?

What probably are the pros and cons comparing GlusterFS Storage Domains and a common SAN deployment? Huge scalability and HA?

My understanding of the relationship is Gluster or XFS is sits on top of a cluster of servers running NFS which would store the VM's as NFS files.  The magic of gluster is there is a hash that determines which node in the cluster holds the file so as not to need a meta data server to store the location of the file.  Anyway if the client is not built into the virtualization technology (like with VMware) it can not got directly to the right node (the one with the file) which would make it slow.

This feature was in preview and I am trying to find out if it made it into the Monday release RHEV of 3.1.

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