On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Derek J. Balling<[email protected]> wrote: > > The advantage here is that -- in most peoples' ESX environments -- > they don't need local storage, they're using a SAN/NAS for their VM > storage. Why pay to spin up media in blades or pizza-boxes that is > going to waste? >
Given that high availability is one of my goals, what kind of storage is appropriate? NFS? iSCSI? A GlusterFS cluster? A storage appliance? It is apparent that some kind of shared storage is necessary to migrate a VM from one compute server to another. Currently my shared storage is an NFS server, but I'm skeptical of how well that would perform with VMs running on it. Is iSCSI appropriate for shared storage? Knowing that I could be running dozens of VMs, some for critical services, high availability is a requirement. I would be very unhappy if the storage device all the VMs were on decided to take a vacation during my vacation. What kind of storage do you use for your VMs? -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
