On 03/11/2011 01:37 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> 1. create new LUN(s) that will be used as a virtual machine disk
> 2. create the virtual machine, and set up the logical volumes, punching
> the SAN devices through into the VM.
> 3. reboot the physical machine (suspending or shutting down the vms too)
> 4. volumes intended for the VM are now instead active on the host.
> 
> Hope that helps.  No amount of zoning is going to fix that.

I should add that given this problem there is no way to use LVM inside
of a VM guest using a physical disk of any kind without the host RH EL
activating the volumes.  SAN is just one case where this is going to
occur, even with zoning.

-- 
Michael Torrie
Assistant CSR, System Administrator
Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
+1.801.422.5771

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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