RE: [Xen-users] Shared Storage

[<admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The only way I know of to get InfiniBand working with XCP is by manually doing it using the DDK.  By default, XCP does not support InfiniBand even though it is based off an OS that does support InfiniBand.

 

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From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joseph Glanville
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 10:24 AM
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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Shared Storage

 

I am not 100% familiar with the internals of XCP but after taking a glance it's based off a Centos 5.4 kernel I believe which is OFED compatible.

You could simply install the OFED RPM and have full Infiniband support. IPoIB is fine for iSCSI based storage etc.

 

Joseph.

On 27 April 2011 22:44, <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I really like InfiniBand.  However, it is not supported with XCP.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joseph Glanville
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 6:28 AM
To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-users] Shared Storage

 

SR is the Xen Cloud Platform storage manager deamon I think.

But yes, cLVM is not required to build a setup where a single large LUN is exported to multiple hypervisors as long as you manage the LVM metadata on a single host. If you need to manage it on multiple hosts make sure you script running an lvscan on the other hosts to switch the logical volumes to active.

If you are running a RHEL environment I highly suggest looking into cLVM and the rest of the RHEL cluster suite as it makes alot of what you are trying to do alot easier. If not there is plenty of room left for hackery. :)

For those that have suggested Infiniband I would also put my vote behind it. Our solutions are developed on Infiniband and are some of the fastest in the world (or fastest in the case of cloud storage) and we are yet to saturate the bandwith of bonded DDR which is 40gbit. Price per port it is not that far from 10GbE but much more useful and resilient.

Joseph.

 

On 27 April 2011 03:01, John Madden <jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Am I missing something here? Is it possible to do live migrations
using SR type LVMoiSCSI? The reason I ask is because the discussion
made me think it would not be possible.

 

I don't know what "SR" means but yes, you can do live migrations even without cLVM.  All cLVM does is ensure consistency in LVM metadata changes across the cluster.  Xen itself prevents the source and destination dom0's from trashing the disk during live migration.  Other multi-node trashings are left to lock managers like OCFS2, GFS, not-being-dumb, etc.

John





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Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
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