<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>I'm definitely found of Sheepdog, this is great and this is exactly what I need and it works extremely well with ProxMox.</div><div>I experimented a lot with a ProxMox cluster running Sheepdog 0.8 and qemu 1.7 in our lab and it is really impressive.</div><div><br></div><div>Now, we would like to deploy this solution to replace our beta environment on a brand new 3 nodes ProxMox cluster running on dedicated servers at OVH (a french hosting company).</div><div><br></div><div>These nodes are identical and using this local storage layout :</div><div><br></div><div>Hardware RAID with LSI Logic MegaRAID controler with 1GB BBU onboard memory.</div><div>On this controler are defines 2 RAID volumes :</div><div> * one RAID1 volume with 2x3TB SATA III mechanical hard drives</div><div> * one RAID0 volume with 2x300GB SATA III Intel S3500 SSD drives</div><div><br></div><div>Our will is to create 2 Sheepdog storage clusters on these nodes :</div><div> * one "small but fast" using only SSD drives</div><div> * one "big but slow" using only mechanical SATA drives</div><div><br></div><div>We don't want to mix storage types to make on big sheepdog storage, we really want separated servers.</div><div><br></div><div>I tried different settings but I can't do that, I always end with one mixed storage even if I run 2 different sheepdog servers binded on different ports or IPs and using different rootdirs, pids, ...</div><div><br></div><div>Whatever I try, I'm stuck with one volume only.</div><div><br></div><div>So here are my questions :</div><div><br></div><div> * Is it possible to have multiple storage instances per nodes ?</div><div> * If so, how ?</div><div><br></div><div>For now I'm stuck and I really don't know where to go now :(</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Walid Moghrabi</div></div></body></html>