Kevin,
This is how I run test systems, I let iovirt devices to be attached to multiple
kvm systems. It works well.
-- Lauz
On 25 October 2016 20:05:12 BST, Kevin D Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>Mark,
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>You can run Spectrum Scale with virtual machines. As long as the
>virtual disks present to the file system as devices, you should be good
>to go (for example, "cat /proc/partitions" should show your virtual
>disks as devices). I typically use scsi raw devices with virtual
>machines and that seems to work well. KVM allows you to share the
>disks as well between hosts and that's important to emulate more
>production level uses. It is good for a lab or to try something
>quickly without provisioning actual machines. We have sometimes used
>SS with virtual machines in production but we typically recommend bare
>metal if/when possible.
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>Kevin D. Johnson, MBA, MAFM
>Spectrum Computing, Senior Managing Consultant
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>IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Spectrum Scale V4.1.1
>IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Cloud Object Storage V3.8
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>IBM Certified Solution Advisor - Spectrum Computing V1
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>720.349.6199 - [email protected]
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>Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] Virtualized Spectrum Scale
>Date: Tue, Oct 25, 2016 2:47 PM
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>Anyone running SpectrumScale on Virtual Machines (intel)? I’m curious
>how you manage disks? Do you use RDM’s? Does this even make sense to
>do? If you have a 2-3 node cluster how do you share the disks across?
>Do you have VM’s with their own VMDK’s (if not RDM) in each node or is
>there some way to share access to the same VMDK’s? What are the
>advantages doing this other than existing HW use? Seems to me for a
>lab environment or very small nonperformance focused implementation
>this may be a viable option.
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>Thanks
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>Mark
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