Re: [CentOS-virt] OT: Recommendations for a virtual storage server

2011-02-02 Thread Kelly Alger
I may be wrong on this compdoc, but I'm pretty sure it's a pretty bad idea to have the host (Dom0 for me, in Xen) doing anything other than hosting the system for the DomUs. As far as the 'best' setup for your NAS server, it really depends on how much you know about Linux. Openfiler is really

[CentOS-virt] OT: Recommendations for a virtual storage server

2011-01-28 Thread carlopmart
Hi all, I need to install a virtual machine acting as a virtual storage server under CentOS 5.x (using kvm, xen, virtualbox or vmware). This virtual storage machine needs to server storage to another ESXi server and at the same time to the host where is installed. This is due to the

Re: [CentOS-virt] OT: Recommendations for a virtual storage server

2011-01-28 Thread Gilberto Nunes
My recomendation: Freenas... It´s a lightweight NAS with freebsd and work very well... I had installed 4 VM with KVM on CentOS 5.5. This Freenas VM server iSCSI storage to 4 VM with Windows 2008 R2 Cluster FailOver solution... I installed Freenas ´cause I was needed iSCSI with Persistent

Re: [CentOS-virt] OT: Recommendations for a virtual storage server

2011-01-28 Thread compdoc
I need to install a virtual machine acting as a virtual storage server under CentOS 5.x (using kvm, xen, virtualbox or vmware). Back when I started using virtual machines, I used guests to share large storage. Eventually, I found it was better to let the host do the sharing of storage, and let