[Linux-cluster] Home-brew SAN/iSCSI

[Rajagopal Swaminathan]

Greetings,

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Mike Cardwell
<linux-cluster at lists.grepular.com> wrote:
> Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>
>>>> Another option, at least with VMware, would be to create a shared disk
>>>> that can be seen by all your VM's.
>>>>
>>>> A bit simpler than setting up iSCSI, though that would be a good thing
>>>> to learn in it of itself...
>>>
>>> ... or to just do the same with KVM or Xen, which doesn't require
>>> spending money on VMWare and is part of RHEL...
>>
>> Of course.  And ESXi is free as well -- use whichever virtualization
>> tech you prefer..
>
> As well as ESXi, VMWare server is also completely free.
>


Watch out for VMFS ....

Would prefer GFS though and on a shared storage of course...

Incidentally, has anybody worked on a _live_ cluster controlled KVM
image (_not_ xen -- there is a how to for that in redhat magazine)
which automagically shifts as any cluster controlled resource would do
-- like VIP, apace et. al.???

Regards,