On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Mathew Snyder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 03/27/12 15:17, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Mathew Snyder wrote: >>>> Has anyone ever implemented this in a virtual environment? We have >>>> numerous customers on a "platform" we've developed in a shared cloud >>>> (ugh...I hate that word) environment. We'd be looking to provide a >>>> large, central, clustered storage repository for some if not all of >>>> them so that they can implement HA. >>>> >>>> While I know it to be false, we've been told that adding physical >>>> SAN/NAS storage to our environment is impossible. Really, I just think >>>> it's a matter of the prime on the contract not wanting to deal with it >>>> as it does not fall in line with their sales model for shared >>>> resources. >>> As I understand GFS2 (the main thing in Red Hat Resilient Storage), most >>> of its features require a SAN. >> >> or the simulation there of. (ie. a shared block device) >> This could be a VM exporting an iSCSI target. (Which is what things >> like Left-Hand SAN solutions from HP does. >> >> -- >> Mr. Flibble >> King of the Potato People >> > > That's the impression I got from the limited documentation I've been > able to find which is specifically about RS. I'm still digging into it > but will also look into gluster to see what it can do for us. > > -Mathew > > "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything > at all." - God; Futurama
Among other links I've found documenting using GFS2 on a non-SAN VM: http://wiki.sysconfig.org.uk/display/howto/Clustered+Filesystem+with+DRBD+and+GFS2+on+CentOS+5.4 -Mathew "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." - God; Futurama _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
