XOSTOR hyperconvergence preview

henri9813

but how recover from this situation ?

Thanks !

snk33

@ronan-a said in XOSTOR hyperconvergence preview:

@peter_webbird We've already had feedback on CBT and LINSTOR/DRBD, we don't necessarily recommend enabling it. We have a blocking dev card regarding a bug with LVM lvchange command that may fail on CBT volumes used by a XOSTOR SR. We also have other issues related to migration with CBT.

Is the problem still occurring on latest XCP-ng / XOSTOR version ? Not being able to use CBT on XOSTOR is a big issue for backup/replication.

snk33

Any update from someone ? Not having the ability to enable CBT on XOSTOR is really complicated to make replication / DR scenarios.

At least to know if this is work in progress or not. If it's not we'll need to pause our PoC and post-pone production schedule waiting for significant update.

ronan-a

@snk33 In fact we have limitations with CBT and XOSTOR. And this won't be resolved until we get back into SMAPIv3.

Not being able to use CBT on XOSTOR is a big issue for backup/replication.

Using it is more likely to cause problems than improve your situation. What bothers you about not using CBT here?

snk33

@ronan-a we need to have CBT to use 3rd party backup & replication solution such as Veeam.

On the other hand, XOSTOR with VHD disk might be ok using Xen Orchestra backup & replication features but it needs more testing on our end to make sure it works good enough.
One big question is about the snapshot chain. Coming from VMware world where keeping snapshots may impact I/O performances, we're not very comfortable with it.

Also, we need to find solution for low-RPO replication. On our VMware infrastructure we use Zerto DR for this but XOA being more like Veeam using snapshots, low-RPO will be tough to achieve (unless making snapshots doesn't affect performances at all ?).