Thanks Avi, From: "Avi Miller" <[email protected]>
>> On 4 Feb 2015, at 11:42 am, Peter Ross <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I have after installation a lot of unused disk space I would like to >> export for "other use" via iSCSI target. >> >> It is all looking as "borrowed" from RHEL 5 - so.. may an iSCSI target >> from there work? > > Technically: yes. However, we strongly recommend you don't. However, if > you absolutely really want to, I recommend using NFS instead of iSCSI to > share the unused space. Curious question: Why do you recommend this instead of iSCSI? > You should also be using Oracle VM 3.3 (which is the latest) which has an > OL6 userspace, not OL5. Yes, OL6. Sorry, got that wrong. BTW: Searching for possible iSCSI targets, I found this exotic one: http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/epel/6/i386/netbsd-iscsi-20080207-3.el6.i686.html > Also, with OVM 3.3, the unused local space can now > be used as a storage repository for local VMs. Yes. But it is on ocfs2.. and local. So no fail-over, and backup/mirroring for cold stand-by is all very clunky, it seems. > Again, ensure you're running Oracle VM 3.3 which uses MySQL Enterprise by > default. It's also a lot faster. Yes, I have this, and noticed that it did not like my local MySQL install. > However, the initial startup of WebLogic > can be pretty long as it runs all the discovery scripts to find and > enumerate active OVM servers. I think I should only start it when needed, as long as I have it on the local desktop. >> Location-wise, what is the "right thing to do"? I am tempted to put it >> on >> a Oracle VM Server but that would not work well if I have a Server >> problem >> and no manager either... Well, I could put it on two servers?? > > Either run it in VirtualBox or install it on another server. We don't > recommend running Oracle VM Manager as a guest of the server its managing > for exactly that reason. Yes.. At the moment my server setup is all a bit patch-work.. I have to "redesign" to make it nice and easy again. The exercise I am going through, satisfying proprietary software, is exactly a demonstration to show the benefits of open software because the later gives you the freedom of choice:-) Cheers Peter _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
