[linux-lvm] SAN

[Jonathan Tripathy]

On 22/04/2011 17:38, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
>
>> What is the best way to deploy LVM in such a way that multiple 
>> servers could access the LVs? Really what I'm looking for is a 
>> "common VG" for all of our servers. Note though that only one server 
>> will actually access each LV, however it would be cool if another 
>> server could make a snapshot to perform an rsync backup.
>
> This is what cluster LVM is for.  It provides a locking mechanism to
> avoid conflicting changes to LVM metadata.
>
I'm a little confused on where CLVM fits into the "big picture". Let's 
say I have one SAN server, and 10 Xen Servers. Where do I install CLVM?