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

To: "Ferenc Wagner" <wferi@xxxxxxx>, "Olivier Le Cam" <Olivier.LeCam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Sharing space on a SAN?
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:45:44 +1100
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Thread-topic: [Xen-users] Sharing space on a SAN?
> Olivier Le Cam <Olivier.LeCam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > My SAN is able to provide up to 32 lun's, which is quite
> > insufficient for the number of domUs I need: I've got 5 dom0s, which
I
> > intent to run +/- 10 domUs per dom0s on. Some of them are databases
> > with a dedicated logical drive on the SAN for the datas in
additition
> > to the root filesystem, which means 2 lun's per domUs in that case.
> >
> > What could you suggest in that situation?
> 
> Use clvm.  That way 1 shared LU is enough for the whole cluster.

Does clvm support snapshots these days? I remember ages ago when I was
testing I thought that the reason it wasn't allowing me to create a
snapshot was because I wasn't doing something right, so I forced the
issue. The result being a completely corrupted lv and a slightly wiser
me.

James

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