Only about half my vms are working on local storage. The other half are on shared storage using live migration. =/ Thanks for the suggestion though. That may be useful for another installation I'm getting ready to set up. Dave
> From: edison...@citrix.com > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: RE: Support for multiple Local Storage volumes > Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 20:48:52 +0000 > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Ortiz [mailto:dpor...@outlook.com] > > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 1:33 PM > > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > > Subject: RE: Support for multiple Local Storage volumes > > > > That's actually how I have my primary storage setup using a gfs2 cluster. > > In > > this case I want the storage to only be local to that host though. I have > > some > > VMs running that will work better if they have exclusive access to a > > spindle. > > Just wanted to make sure this feature isn't already there before I start > > poking around to figure out how to add the ability. > Only one local storage per host is supported out-of-box. > > In order to workaround the limitation, you can use one host one cluster, then > add a lot of "SharedMount" primary storages per cluster. > As you are using local storage, you don't need live migration, thus, no need > to group hosts into a cluster. > > > Thanks, Dave > > > > > From: edison...@citrix.com > > > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > > > Subject: RE: Support for multiple Local Storage volumes > > > Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 18:48:31 +0000 > > > > > > You can always use "SharedMount" in KVM: > > > > > > KVM supports "Shared Mountpoint" storage. A shared mountpoint is a > > > file system path local to each server in a given cluster. The path > > > must be the same across all Hosts in the cluster, for example > > > /mnt/primary1. This shared mountpoint is assumed to be a clustered > > > filesystem such as OCFS2. In this case the CloudStack does not attempt > > > to mount or unmount the storage as is done with NFS. The CloudStack > > > requires that the administrator insure that the storage is available > > > > > > http://people.apache.org/~ke4qqq/docs2/en- > > US/Apache_CloudStack/4.0/htm > > > l/Admin_Guide/hypervisor-support-for-primarystorage.html > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: David Ortiz [mailto:dpor...@outlook.com] > > > > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 5:12 AM > > > > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > > > > Subject: Support for multiple Local Storage volumes > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I know as of Cloudstack 4.0.1 it was not possible to set up > > > > multiple local storage volumes on a cloudstack host. Is this still > > > > the case? I am looking to provide multiple drives as separate > > > > volumes to simulate the kind of disk passthrough features that are > > supported by VMWare. > > > > Thanks, David Ortiz > >
