Thanks Andy I guess I just need clarification on what type of vm host profile I will need to use with this type of setup and if I need a separate vm host profile for each of my esxi host servers?
David DeMizio *Academic Systems Coordinator* Office of Information Technology New College of Florida Phone: 941-487-4222 | Fax: 941-487-4356 www.ncf.edu On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Andy Kurth <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't tried it, but apparently you can vMotion VMs without having > shared storage starting with 5.1: > > > http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/09/vmotion-without-shared-storage-requirement-does-it-have-a-name.html > > -Andy > > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:22 AM, David DeMizio <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thank Dmitri, >> >> I'm getting a bit confused because the VM Working Directory Path pointing >> to the local SSD which the other server knows nothing about. I'm currently >> using the VMware Vcenter host profile will I need to change that and use >> the esxi local storage profile? Seems like I'm going to need two virtual >> hosts using the esxi local storage policy? >> >> >> David DeMizio >> *Academic Systems Coordinator* >> Office of Information Technology >> New College of Florida >> Phone: 941-487-4222 | Fax: 941-487-4356 >> www.ncf.edu >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Dmitri Chebotarov <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi David >>> >>> >>> I think it should work fine with local SSD storage on ESXi hosts. You >>> still may want to use a shared NFS storage for your images (Virtual >>> Disk Path), but you can point VM Working Directory Path to local SSD >>> storage. >>> >>> -- >>> Thank you, >>> >>> Dmitri Chebotarov >>> VCL Sys Eng, Engineering & Architectural >>> Support, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging >>> 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 >>> Phone: (703) 993-6175 | Fax: (703) 993-3404 >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> *From:* David DeMizio <[email protected]> >>> *Sent:* Thursday, June 05, 2014 10:08 AM >>> *To:* user >>> *Subject:* Local storage >>> >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> We have two servers with local Solid state storage in both of them >>> that I would like to start testing with VCL. Currently, I am using vsphere >>> 5.5 with the vcl vmware module to provision my nodes by using a SAN. Of >>> course if I plan to test VCL just using the local SSD drives than I will >>> lose the ability of vmotion, at least I think I will because each server >>> will not have access to the other servers SSDs. Can I still use the vmware >>> module if I go this route? Any other suggestions are appreciated. Thank you. >>> >>> -Dave >>> >> >> >
