WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-users

Re: [Xen-users] Sharing space on a SAN?

To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Sharing space on a SAN?
From: Florian Manschwetus <florianmanschwetus@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:32:24 +0200
Delivery-date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:32:22 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20080904143439.GC15685@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-users@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <1220534338.11534.19.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20080904143439.GC15685@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080725)
Maximilian Wilhelm schrieb:
> Anno domini 2008 James Pifer scripsit:
> 
>> I have several SLES 10 SP1 xen servers. Right now each one has it's own
>> internal disks, or has space on our SAN. I would like to be able to xm
>> migrate VMs between my xen servers. Everything I've read so far talks
>> about all the xen servers having network access to the VMs. 
> 
>> Is it possible to use a SAN for this? We can assign the same vdisk to
>> multiple hosts, but not sure what would be required on the dom0's to all
>> use the same disk for storage of their domU's. 
> 
>> We do something similar with oracle, where we have a cluster of linux
>> machines, but from what I've gathered Oracle does something special
>> allowing all the systems to share the data vdisk. I was not part of that
>> installation, so I'm not sure exactly how it's setup.
> 
>> Anyone know if sharing a virtual disk on a SAN is possible with xen?
>> What's required to make it work?
> 
> Sure.
> Have a look at CLVM and/or EVMS.
> 
> If you are using image files file systems like GFS an OCFS2 maybe
> interesting, too.
> 
> Ciao
> Max
Or just give each domU a directly raw mapped volume on the SAN.

This is the Solution here (using solaris nevada CE + sun xvm).
Live migration of linux PV works quite fine.

Florian

Attachment: smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users