Hi Evan, Thanks for the response. Just out of curiosity, do you have to pay the extra licensing costs for each CentOS node? best, ...adam On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Evan Fraser <evan.fraser at rms.com> wrote: > Adam Wead <amsterdamos at ...> writes: > > > > > Hi all,I was wondering if anyone might be able to speak about using IBM's > GPFS > filesystem as a means of storing virtual guests in a clustered environment > with > CentOS as the nodes and KVM as the hypervisor? > > Hi Adam, > I use GPFS as my filesystem for my Centos-Xenvirtual environment. > > The Virtual servers are converted Compute nodes, running Centos 5.4 with > Xen > 3.4.2 and have Infiniband connectivity to the NSD servers. The VM's all > live on > the GPFS filesystem. This has worked pretty well, the disk performance of > the > VM's has been good when using the GPL paravirt drivers (my VM's are windows > server 2003). > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20101202/f232d0e9/attachment-0005.html>