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Reporter RHNID: mikephillips1973
Section: - Introducing Red Hat Virtualization
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Description: #REF!

Description: In the first section of Chapter 1 (Introducing Red Hat Virtualization), there is a section that talks about storage. It indicates that there are three types of storage domains: data domains, ISO domains, and export domains.

I would like to see a couple of changes to this section:

1. There should be some text indicating that while export domains are still available, they have been deprecated. In the "Importing and Exporting Virtual Machines" section of Chapter 10, two sentences read, "Older versions of Red Hat Virtualization used a special export domain to export and import images between data domains. While the export domain feature is being phased out in favor of newer methods, it is still available and can be useful if you are working with older versions of the product." This is somewhat related to RH318-135.
2. Part of the information in this section indicates, "ISO and export storage domains can only reside on NFS shares." I know that this was true at one point, but I don't think that it has been true since RHEV 3.x. If this is really true, why are "POSIX compliant" and "GlusterFS" additional options in the Storage Type pull-down menu when creating either ISO or Export storage domains?

If in fact, ISO and Export can be created on something besides NFS, this would also impact the first quiz in chapter 1 "Quiz: Describing the Concepts of Red Hat Virtualization" since question 5 is, "Which two storage domain types must be provided by an NFS share? (Choose two.)". Maybe the question can be rewritten to something like, "Which storage domain offers the flexibility for multiple storage types including NFS, iSCSI, Fiber Channel, etc.?"