On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 at 3:45pm, Lars Hecking wrote > Emmanuel Noobadmin writes: >> >> I haven't used Lustre but was also researching on using it for same >> purpose as shared storage for VMs. Dropped it in the end from >> consideration after some discussion on the Lustre mailing list points >> out that it's more intended for high performance rather than high >> availability. So it might not be that suitable as a HA solution. >> >> Have you considered trying Gluster instead? > > What do Gluster or Lustre offer that the builtin Red Hat Cluster Suite > does not? One does not need shared storage for Gluster. Each storage brick has its own storage, and Gluster handles replication/distribution across the nodes. Also, according to RH's site, RHCS is limited to 16 nodes. Gluster has no such limit. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF