Chapter 4. Creating Red Hat Gluster Storage volumes using the Administration Portal

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.