Re: [Xen-users] XCP and Gluster

[Joseph Glanville <joseph.glanville@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I would really recommend against using Gluster or any filesystem based
method of providing VM storage, you are much better off using a block
based storage system. iSCSI is many times more efficent and fault
tolerant than Gluster.
My recommendation is to use the FUSE driver within the VMs to connect
to Gluster volumes if you require them.

Joseph.

On 5 June 2011 00:28, Scott Damron <sdamron@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I believe it would be, I really am just trying to avoid using iSCSI
> due to overhead.  I also am struggling to understand XCP a bit I
> guess.  Is it really just Xen with VSwitch, Vastsky and a few other
> magic bits thrown in, or is it entirely something new that tools you
> would normally use with Xen won't work with?  Does it use Vastsky and
> VSwitch by default when you set up some systems, or do you have to
> configure something special to make use of the switching and storage?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Mike McClurg <mike.mcclurg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 06/04/2011 04:23 AM, Scott Damron wrote:
>>> I am interested in how Gluser and XCP would work together.  I see that
>>> Gluster says they support running as a VM in Xen, but does XCP support
>>> connecting to a Gluster presented volume for booting and running VMs?
>>> Any good technical details would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>> Scott
>>>
>>
>> I haven't used Gluster at all yet, but I've been meaning to give it a try on 
>> XCP to see what I can do with it. Does Gluster allow you to share a volume 
>> as NFS? If that were the case, then XCP could use the Gluster NFS share as 
>> an SR, and you'd have Gluster underneath your XCP VMs, without XCP having 
>> any idea. Would this set up be helpful to you?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
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