On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/27/12 15:17, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> Mathew Snyder wrote: >>> Has anyone ever implemented this in a virtual environment? We have >>> numerous customers on a "platform" we've developed in a shared cloud >>> (ugh...I hate that word) environment. We'd be looking to provide a >>> large, central, clustered storage repository for some if not all of >>> them so that they can implement HA. >>> >>> While I know it to be false, we've been told that adding physical >>> SAN/NAS storage to our environment is impossible. Really, I just think >>> it's a matter of the prime on the contract not wanting to deal with it >>> as it does not fall in line with their sales model for shared >>> resources. >> As I understand GFS2 (the main thing in Red Hat Resilient Storage), most >> of its features require a SAN. > > or the simulation there of. (ie. a shared block device) > This could be a VM exporting an iSCSI target. (Which is what things > like Left-Hand SAN solutions from HP does. > > -- > Mr. Flibble > King of the Potato People >
That's the impression I got from the limited documentation I've been able to find which is specifically about RS. I'm still digging into it but will also look into gluster to see what it can do for us. -Mathew "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." - God; Futurama _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
