[Linux-cluster] Home-brew SAN/iSCSI

[Madison Kelly]

Lon Hohberger wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 06:22 -0700, 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...
> 
> -- Lon

lol, thanks! I've actually switched away from VMWare to Xen as of last 
year. I can see why VMWare was great before a few years ago, but these 
days I find Xen to be better with the right hardware. Specifically, a 
multi-core CPU that supports virtualization.

As for the other types of data stores, I've been using DRBD + LVM in 
Primary/Primary mode already. It was tricky to get going in the first 
place, but I got it going and now feel that iSCSI/SAN is the next step. :)

Madi