# Linstor and KVM host on seperate nodes for cloudstack

**URL:** <https://forums.linbit.com/t/linstor-and-kvm-host-on-seperate-nodes-for-cloudstack/145>\
**Category:** LINBIT SDS Integrations\
**Created:** [June 20, 2024, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.linbit.com/t/linstor-and-kvm-host-on-seperate-nodes-for-cloudstack/145 "2024-06-20T09:48:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![aashiqps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@aashiqps](https://forums.linbit.com/u/aashiqps)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.linbit.com/t/linstor-and-kvm-host-on-seperate-nodes-for-cloudstack/145/1 "2024-06-20T09:48:39Z")

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can i setup linstor node and KVM hosts on separate nodes for cloudstack and use the linstor as primary storage. currently this scenario is not working for me and getting error. but if a configure linstor satellite and kvm in same node it is working

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**Author:** ![wanzenbug](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/forums.linbit.com/wanzenbug/32/39_2.png) [@wanzenbug](https://forums.linbit.com/u/wanzenbug)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 10:52am UTC](https://forums.linbit.com/t/linstor-and-kvm-host-on-seperate-nodes-for-cloudstack/145/2 "2024-06-20T10:52:32Z")

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You will need to run a LINSTOR Satellite on all hypervisor/kvm hosts. What you can do is have separate LINSTOR Satellites that just provide storage. So your hypervisor hosts have only the default “diskless” storage pool configured, while other nodes have the LVM/ZFS storage pools that are actually holding the data.

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**Author:** ![aashiqps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@aashiqps](https://forums.linbit.com/u/aashiqps)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 11:04am UTC](https://forums.linbit.com/t/linstor-and-kvm-host-on-seperate-nodes-for-cloudstack/145/3 "2024-06-20T11:04:26Z")

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we have done this but unable to create vm’s, can you elaborate the steps for separating the kvm node and linstor satellite in separate nodes.

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**Author:** ![aashiqps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@aashiqps](https://forums.linbit.com/u/aashiqps)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.linbit.com/t/linstor-and-kvm-host-on-seperate-nodes-for-cloudstack/145/4 "2024-06-20T11:13:08Z")

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# Reported error:

Category: RuntimeException  
Class name: ApiRcException  
Class canonical name: com.linbit.linstor.core.apicallhandler.response.ApiRcException  
Generated at: Method ‘createResource’, Source file ‘CtrlRscCrtApiHelper.java’, Line #1010

Error message: Satellite ‘compute-2’ does not support the following layers: [DRBD]

Error context:  
Satellite ‘compute-2’ does not support the following layers: [DRBD]  
Asynchronous stage backtrace:  
Error has been observed at the following site(s):  
\*\_\_checkpoint ⇢ Spawn resource-definition  
Original Stack Trace:

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**Author:** ![wanzenbug](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/forums.linbit.com/wanzenbug/32/39_2.png) [@wanzenbug](https://forums.linbit.com/u/wanzenbug)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2024, 11:59am UTC](https://forums.linbit.com/t/linstor-and-kvm-host-on-seperate-nodes-for-cloudstack/145/5 "2024-06-27T11:59:54Z")

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Well, it looks like DRBD is not installed, or the installed DRBD version is not new enough. Please make sure you have DRBD \>= 9 installed on all nodes.