This still give you the HA/Live migration options within Cloudstack or are you using those from within XenCenter? Thanks for the confirmation that our thinking might just be sane.
Thanks On Jun 26, 2012, at 1:45 PM, Clayton Weise wrote: > We are doing multipath iSCSI but it was more or less the same process. You > would add the storage repo to your XenServer(s) first, then tell CS to use a > preSetup storage repo and specify the name of the SR you created. Although > it may be possible, I would recommend against putting spaces in the SR name, > otherwise it should be fine. It's how FC storage is recommended to be > mounted with CloudStack and XenServer. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Caleb Call [mailto:calebc...@me.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 9:58 AM > To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Using Direct Fiber attached storage > > I posted this on the forum a few days ago, but haven't gotten any replies, so > please forgive the double post. > > As odd and strange as this may be, our environment isn't really built out to > use nfs or iscsi, but we have a very extensive fiber network. We've > traditionally used this for our storage in our current VM environment. We are > re-architecting our environment using cloudstack but would really like to > continue to use the direct fiber attached storage. Is it possible? We've > thought about using some hacktastic ways to trick the system into thinking > it's using nfs, but really be over san...again hacktastic. I noticed the > option to add Pre-Setup storage. Would we be able to go add the storage to > the Xenserver directly, then take and add that to CS? Or is there another way > to use direct fiber attached storage without going the local disk route and > thus loosing the HA/live-migration features? > > Thanks
