Sriram,

----- "Sriram Narayanan" <sri...@belenix.org> escreveu:

> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Thiago C. M. Cordeiro | World Web
> <thiago.mart...@worldweb.com.br> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >  Today I have ten computers with Xen and Linux, each with 2 discs of
> 500G in raid1, each node sees only its own raid1 volume, I do not have
> live motion of my virtual machines... and moving the data from one
> hypervisor to another is a pain task...
> >
> >  Now that I discovered this awesome file system! I want that the ZFS
> manages all my discs in a network environment.
> >
> >  But I don't know the best way to make a pool using all my 20 discs
> in one big pool with 10T of capacity.
> >
> >  My first contact with Solaris, was with the OpenSolaris 2008.11, as
> a virtual machine (paravirtual domU) on a Linux (Debian 5.0) dom0. I
> also have more opensolaris on real machines to make the tests...
> >
> >  I'm thinking in export all my 20 discs, through the AoE protocol,
> and in my dom0 that I'm running the opensolaris domU (in HA through
> the Xen), I will make the configuration file for it (zfs01.cfg) with
> 20 block devices of 500G and inside the opensolaris domu, I will share
> the pool via iSCSI targets and/or NFS back to the domUs of my
> cluster...  Is this a good idea?
> 
> I share a three disk pool over NFS for some VMWare ESXi based
> hosting.
This three discs are on the same machine or in three distinct?
I mean, your pool have three local or remote discs?

> There is considerably high disk I/O caused by the apps that run on
> these VMs. ZFS + NFS is working fine for me.
> 
> I intend to experiment with iSCSI later when I free up some machines
> for such an experiment.
> 
> -- Sriram

Thanks!
-
Thiago
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