Any advice? On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 17:36 -0400, Scott McClanahan wrote: > We have two virtual machines on ESX 3 running CentOS 4.3 and we'd like > to turn them into some sort of highly available nfs file server. > Currently, I am familiar with DRBD and RHCS but I was curious what > others might recommend in such a situation. > > I'm not sure how easily we could use RHCS in such a situation because we > don't really have the advantage of shared storage in this setup. We are > strictly limited to the two boxes. Having said that, it would be nice > to have some of the exports running on one node (tied to a VIP) and > others on the other node (tied to another VIP) if possible and manage > those services individually if needed. So basically both nodes would be > exporting select locations at any given time on this highly available > file system. That is not 100% necessary but it would be nice if the > capability is there. I would assume some sort of fencing mechanism > would need to been in place as well. > > This might not be the best place to ask an ESX question but would 'raw > device mapping' work in such a scenario? I don't know much about it. > > I can give more details if needed but hopefully this is enough for some > suggestions. Thanks!