[rhelv6-list] Options for shared storage

[Jan-Frode Myklebust]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 06:43:49PM +0200, Mindaugas Riauba wrote:
> 
>   In RHEL5 I used VG on LUN and created logical volume for each
> virtual machine. Everything worked fine. One just had to make sure not
> to perform any operations with LVM metadata (creation of LVs, creation
> of snapshots, expanding LVs) from several physical hosts at the same
> time.
> 
>   Would it work in RHEL6/KVM by creating LVM based pool on one host
> and importing it to the storage pools of other hosts?

I can't see why this should be any problem. This is also how RHEV is
handling the storage for it's VMs on FC or iSCSI. I'm not sure exactly
how they are doing it, but see that LVs are only active on the node
where the VM is running (lvchange -aey ?).


  -jf