Hi, I've been using OpenAFS file servers under VMWare 6.5 for about a year and a half with no problems.
I'm using OpenAFS 1.7.21.1 on Centos 6.9 with the kmod package. My vice partition is just a regular vmware vmdk file as sdb mounted as vicepa. I've templated a base file server so I can have a new fileserver up and running in a couple of minutes. I've vmotioned fileservers around with no problems. It's been really stable for me. -Dave ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Steve Simmons [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 1:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OpenAFS] Vhosts as AFS servers? The AFS support group (of whom I'm a former member) is considering moving to virtual hosts under vmware for their next generation of servers. So far they're looking at attempting to have the vhosts attach the vice partitions directly from our SAN rather than having storage mediated through vmware. If you're using or used virtualized servers, we'd love to hear how their working out for you. At the moment, the servers are running OpenAFS 1.6.17. I don't know if they're considering upgrading to 1.8.X as part of this or not. Advance thanks, Steve Simmons ITS Unix Support/SCS Admins
