I have a quad core server in which I want to run 4 virtual servers. On this server I have a 1/2 terabyte raid 1 I have split between the 4 members that have the OS on it. I have raid 5 10 terabyte internal storage running on a 3ware 9690a card. I want to share this storage between the servers without partitioning it. Is this possible?
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 16:08 -0500, Rich wrote:
I have a quad core server in which I want to run 4 virtual servers. On this server I have a 1/2 terabyte raid 1 I have split between the 4 members that have the OS on it. I have raid 5 10 terabyte internal storage running on a 3ware 9690a card. I want to share this storage between the servers without partitioning it. Is this possible?
One option, if you want VMs to share the files on the large disk, would be to set up CIFS/NFS.
Andri
either nfs or ocfs2. nfs is the easiest route. ocfs2 will give you a clustered filesystem.
-Adam
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Andri Möll andri@dot.ee wrote:
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 16:08 -0500, Rich wrote:
I have a quad core server in which I want to run 4 virtual servers. On this server I have a 1/2 terabyte raid 1 I have split between the 4 members that have the OS on it. I have raid 5 10 terabyte internal storage running on a 3ware 9690a card. I want to share this storage between the servers without partitioning it. Is this possible?
One option, if you want VMs to share the files on the large disk, would be to set up CIFS/NFS.
Andri
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Err, I meant to say:
*This would allow you to serve the chunks from the virtual machines in various ways. (cifs, nfs, iscsi, etc)
I have a quad core server in which I want to run 4 virtual
servers. On this server I have a 1/2 terabyte raid 1 I have split between the 4 members that have the OS on it. I have raid 5 10 terabyte internal storage running on a 3ware 9690a card. I want to share this storage between the servers without partitioning it. Is this possible?
You can carve up chunks of it to use as block device storage for individual virtual machines. Doing it that way doesn't require any specific partition on the volume. You just include the volume in an LVM group. This would allow you to serve the chunks from the virtual machines in various ways. (ntfs, ext3, iscsi, etc)
I'm pretty sure any other way would require a large partition on some kind. Like ext3, or whichever one you like.
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