Re: [Xen-users] XCP and Gluster

[Joseph Glanville <joseph.glanville@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

There are no such systems available commercially as far as I am aware.
I developed a custom solution for my company to achieve this but at
this point in time your best bet is a SAN that support SRP. Have a
look at the devices from Scalable Informatics - I always recommend
them to others using Infiniband fabrics.

Joseph.

On 6 June 2011 03:45, Martins Lazdans <marrtins@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What do you recommend for such configuration:
> Say, we have 4 servers, each with 12 drives. I want to distribute and
> replicate xen images over all servers in such manner that:
> *) live migration works
> *) *any* one of 4 server may fail still leaving *all* images accessible.
> *) Will work over Infiniband (not only using ipoib)
> *) It would be a big plus, if filesystem do not require separate
> metadata/transaction/management/you-name-it server or at least provide
> machanism for transparent fileover.
>
> I was reading deocumentation of number of network filesystems and GlusterFS
> seemed the best choice.
>
> Igor Serebryany wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 11:56:28PM +1000, Joseph Glanville wrote:
>>>
>>> I would really recommend against using Gluster or any filesystem based
>>> method of providing VM storage
>>
>> Ditto. I would specifically recommend against Gluster. We tried it at my
>> company for VM storage, and it's just not suitable for large files like
>> VM images, especially if you are hoping to use the advanced features
>> like replication.
>>
>> --Igor
>>
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