Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before.
- Jussi
On 03/29/2011 10:47 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before.
- Jussi
Why?? What do you want to do?? Do you need to install a CentOS virtual guest with a mdraid-1?? IMHO, It make no sense ...
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Jussi Hirvi greenspot@greenspot.fi wrote:
Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before.
ESXi itself is the OS. No need Centos anymore to install it. (if I'm getting what you mean correctly ^^)
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Jussi Hirvigreenspot@greenspot.fi wrote:
Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before.
On 29.3.2011 11.58, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
ESXi itself is the OS. No need Centos anymore to install it. (if I'm getting what you mean correctly ^^)
I know I don't need CentOS to install ESXi. I was thinking of having everything (or at least the guests) on mdraid level1. Maybe hardware raid would be the only way to get raid.
Anyway, I now feel the pull of KVM, so for my part I don't need the answer anymore.
- Jussi
On 3/29/11 5:12 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Jussi Hirvigreenspot@greenspot.fi wrote:
Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before.
On 29.3.2011 11.58, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
ESXi itself is the OS. No need Centos anymore to install it. (if I'm getting what you mean correctly ^^)
I know I don't need CentOS to install ESXi. I was thinking of having everything (or at least the guests) on mdraid level1. Maybe hardware raid would be the only way to get raid.
Hardware raid is the easy way to go. But, you should be able to add virtual disks to a guest from ESXi from 2 different physical drives, then let the guest run software raid over them. The guest doesn't know the disks are virtual and will do about anything it could do on its own physical machine.
On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 11:47 +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization
No, ESXi is an OS.
and CentOS mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before.
VMware supports NFS for VM storage. So export your MD-RAID volume to the ESX server.
Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before.
Not if you want to run ESXi on bare metal; ESXi is an OS in it's own right. VMware Player/Server/Workstation OTOH will run on top of mdadm as it needs a host OS and doesn't care what it is given as a block device.
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