1. Verify that your hyperconverged hosts use Red Hat Virtualization 4.3 or higher, and meet Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Virtualization Support Requirements.
2. Subscribe to software repositories.
3. Convert hyperconverged hosts to hyperconverged hosts.
4. Create Red Hat Gluster Storage volumes using storage on the converted host.

1. Log in to the Administration Portal.

2. Move all hosts except the self-hosted engine node into maintenance mode.

   1. Click Compute → Hosts.

   2. For each host except the self-hosted engine node:

      1. Select the host to move to maintenance.
      2. Click Management → Maintenance and click OK.

3. Enable the gluster service in the cluster.

   1. Click Compute → Clusters and select the cluster.

      The Edit Cluster window appears.

   2. Check the Enable Gluster service checkbox.
   3. Click OK.

4. Reinstall all hosts except the self-hosted engine node.

   1. Click Compute → Hosts.

   2. For each host except the self-hosted engine node:

      1. Select the host to reinstall.

      2. Click Management → Reinstall and click OK.

         Wait for the reinstall to complete and for the hosts to become active again.

5. Move the self-hosted engine node into maintenance mode.

   1. Select the self-hosted engine node.

   2. Click Management → Maintenance and click OK

      The hosted engine migrates to one of the other hyperconverged hosts.

6. Reinstall the previous self-hosted engine node.

   1. Select the previous self-hosted engine node.

   2. Click Management → Reinstall and click OK.

      Wait for the reinstall to complete and for the host to become active again.

Task

1. Log in to the Administration Portal.

2. Configure your local storage as a Red Hat Gluster Storage brick.

   1. Click Compute → Hosts and click on the name of the host to use.
   2. Click the Storage Devices subtab and select the device.

   3. Click Create Brick to open the Create Brick window.

      The Create Brick window

      

      1. Enter a Name for the brick.
      2. Verify or correct the suggested Mount Point.
      3. If the underlying storage uses RAID, enter the number of physical disks in the RAID device and confirm the RAID type.
      4. Click OK.

   A new thin-provisioned logical volume is created on the specified storage device, with all settings appropriate for use with Red Hat Gluster Storage.

3. Configure a Red Hat Gluster Storage volume.

   1. Click Storage → Volumes.

   2. Click New to open the New Volume window.

      The New Volume window

      

      1. Select the cluster that contains your bricks.
      2. Enter a Name for the volume.

      3. Set the Type of volume to create. To use local storage without high availability, choose Distribute.

         See Setting Up Storage Volumes in the Red Hat Gluster Storage Administration Guide for more information about volume types.

      4. Click Add Bricks and select your existing storage as a brick for this volume.

         The Add Bricks window

         

      5. Optionally, for enhanced security, specify the IP addresses or hostnames of all hosts in the cluster in the Allow Access From field.
      6. Check the Optimize for virt store checkbox to configure the volume for storing virtual machine images.
      7. Click OK.