On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 11:06:23AM -0600, [email protected] wrote:
> > Maybe I haven't understood well your point,
> 
> I'm sure that perhaps I didn't explain myself well. I am looking for fault 
> tolerance, fail over, redundancy, but am not sure if VMware allows this. For 
> example, in a web cluster, if one server goes down, a front end load balancer 
> just starts sending the traffic to another web server. I am wondering if 
> there is a way of doing this with VMware using GFS. If it is possible, then 
> the only thing I'm nervous about is fencing, which is where most of the 
> issues have been in the past when I have used GFS.
>  

It sounds like what you are after is actually VMware ESX + Virtual 
Infrastructure = $$$
That allows full migration of the VM's around, restarting on node failure etc 
etc...

However this will use VMFS rather than GFS for the storage of the VM's


Stuart

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