Re: KVM, iSCSI and High Availability

2011-03-31 Thread Guido Winkelmann
Am Monday 28 March 2011 schrieb David Martin: - Original Message - On 3/28/11 2:46 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 03/25/2011 10:26 PM, Marcin M. Jessa wrote: [...] One LUN per image allows you to implement failover, LVM doesn't (but cluster-LVM does). I recommend using one LUN

Re: KVM, iSCSI and High Availability

2011-03-31 Thread David Martin
That's what CLVM is for, it propagates the volume changes to every member of the 'cluster'. David Martin - Original Message - Am Monday 28 March 2011 schrieb David Martin: - Original Message - On 3/28/11 2:46 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 03/25/2011 10:26 PM, Marcin M.

Re: KVM, iSCSI and High Availability

2011-03-31 Thread Guido Winkelmann
Am Thursday 31 March 2011 schrieben Sie: That's what CLVM is for, it propagates the volume changes to every member of the 'cluster'. Oh, right. I didn't know about clvm until now. It sounds very promising though, certainly better than working with the proprietary API of whoever your

Re: KVM, iSCSI and High Availability

2011-03-28 Thread Avi Kivity
On 03/25/2011 10:26 PM, Marcin M. Jessa wrote: Hi. Over the last several days I've been reading, asking questions, searching the Internet to find a viable HA stack for Ubuntu with KVM virtualization and shared iSCSI storage. And I'm nearly as confused as when I started. Basically I'm

Re: KVM, iSCSI and High Availability

2011-03-28 Thread David Martin
- Original Message - - Original Message - On 03/25/2011 10:26 PM, Marcin M. Jessa wrote: Hi. Over the last several days I've been reading, asking questions, searching the Internet to find a viable HA stack for Ubuntu with KVM virtualization and shared iSCSI

Re: KVM, iSCSI and High Availability

2011-03-28 Thread Marcin M. Jessa
On 3/28/11 2:46 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 03/25/2011 10:26 PM, Marcin M. Jessa wrote: [...] One LUN per image allows you to implement failover, LVM doesn't (but cluster-LVM does). I recommend using one LUN per image; it's much simpler. Some people say Use one LUN, it's easier and use CLVM.

Re: KVM, iSCSI and High Availability

2011-03-28 Thread Marcin M. Jessa
On 3/28/11 6:21 PM, David Martin wrote: [...] CLVM was more complicated initially but is pretty once we got through that. Having to hack around in the SAN manager and then going to the hosts to mess with the multipath configs etc gets old fast. However if your setup is pretty static then I

Re: KVM, iSCSI and High Availability

2011-03-28 Thread David Martin
- Original Message - On 3/28/11 2:46 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 03/25/2011 10:26 PM, Marcin M. Jessa wrote: [...] One LUN per image allows you to implement failover, LVM doesn't (but cluster-LVM does). I recommend using one LUN per image; it's much simpler. Some people say

Re: KVM, iSCSI and High Availability

2011-03-28 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Marcin M. Jessa li...@yazzy.org wrote: How is OCFS2 compared to CLVM? different layers, can't compare. CLVM (aka cLVM) is the cluster version of LVM, the volume manager. the addition of a userspace lock manager lets you do all volume management (create/delete

KVM, iSCSI and High Availability

2011-03-25 Thread Marcin M. Jessa
Hi. Over the last several days I've been reading, asking questions, searching the Internet to find a viable HA stack for Ubuntu with KVM virtualization and shared iSCSI storage. And I'm nearly as confused as when I started. Basically I'm trying to build a KVM enviroment with an iSCSI SAN