Re: [CentOS-virt] OT: Recommendations for a virtual storage server
I may be wrong on this compdoc, but I'm pretty sure it's a pretty bad idea to have the host (Dom0 for me, in Xen) doing anything other than hosting the system for the DomUs. As far as the 'best' setup for your NAS server, it really depends on how much you know about Linux. Openfiler is really nice, but it has some limitations on what you can do as far as access controls. I found it to be to coarse-grained for my uses. In some situations it would work without a problem, I'm sure. I would give it a close look, really. It is very easy to set up and works well. I'm assuming you don't really know a lot more about Linux than I do because you are asking this question. It is really the same place I started. I have been looking at various solutions for quite a while. The last time I looked at Openfiler you could only use the 32bit version as a DomU in Xen. I think they have other images for other virtualization platforms, and I know they have an image for VMWare. FreeNAS really is nice, and I actually prefer the *BSDs to Linux, but depending on what you are looking for as far as ease of use and setup you may find it somewhat less refined than Openfiler. It is definitely not as 'pretty'. I hope this helps. compdoc wrote: I need to install a virtual machine acting as a virtual storage server under CentOS 5.x (using kvm, xen, virtualbox or vmware). Back when I started using virtual machines, I used guests to share large storage. Eventually, I found it was better to let the host do the sharing of storage, and let the guests connect to it. Seems more efficient that way, as well as helping to facilitate backups and maintenance. ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
[CentOS-virt] OT: Recommendations for a virtual storage server
Hi all, I need to install a virtual machine acting as a virtual storage server under CentOS 5.x (using kvm, xen, virtualbox or vmware). This virtual storage machine needs to server storage to another ESXi server and at the same time to the host where is installed. This is due to the limitations of hardware I have available. Both hosts needs to server several machines. It is very important that the virtual machine consumes the least resources possible (host has 5GB RAM and i need to run three virtual machines minimum, including this storage server as a virtual machine). What can be better solution: CentOS, NexentaStor, openfiler ...?? Many thaks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] OT: Recommendations for a virtual storage server
My recomendation: Freenas... It´s a lightweight NAS with freebsd and work very well... I had installed 4 VM with KVM on CentOS 5.5. This Freenas VM server iSCSI storage to 4 VM with Windows 2008 R2 Cluster FailOver solution... I installed Freenas ´cause I was needed iSCSI with Persistent Reservation on it in order to deploy Cluster FailOver on MS WIndows 2008 R2... I hope this can help you too... Regards 2011/1/28 carlopmart carlopm...@gmail.com: Hi all, I need to install a virtual machine acting as a virtual storage server under CentOS 5.x (using kvm, xen, virtualbox or vmware). This virtual storage machine needs to server storage to another ESXi server and at the same time to the host where is installed. This is due to the limitations of hardware I have available. Both hosts needs to server several machines. It is very important that the virtual machine consumes the least resources possible (host has 5GB RAM and i need to run three virtual machines minimum, including this storage server as a virtual machine). What can be better solution: CentOS, NexentaStor, openfiler ...?? Many thaks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt -- Gilberto Nunes ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] OT: Recommendations for a virtual storage server
I need to install a virtual machine acting as a virtual storage server under CentOS 5.x (using kvm, xen, virtualbox or vmware). Back when I started using virtual machines, I used guests to share large storage. Eventually, I found it was better to let the host do the sharing of storage, and let the guests connect to it. Seems more efficient that way, as well as helping to facilitate backups and maintenance. ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt