[CentOS-virt] Can I use direct attached storage as a shared filesystem in Xen

Mon Feb 8 21:24:50 UTC 2010
Andri Möll <andri at dot.ee>

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