Look into glusterfs if you need windows and unix machines to talk. On Mar 22, 2012 4:57 PM, "Alexandre Fouchs" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I recently installed OpenNebula in a test environment for evaluation > purpose and got it working with a VMware ESXi5 hypervisor. > > Right now I have 3 machines: > > - the front end with OpenNebula installed > - the hypervisor with ESXi > - the storage, mounted both on the front end and on the hypervisor by > using NFS > > > My concern is now how does it really work ? For example if I have 2 > hypervisors or more, would it be possible to access the same share space > with something else than NFS ? And would it be seen as one unique system > from a user point of view (with loadbalancing I assume) ? > We would prefer not to use NFS but I haven't seen alternatives yet. > > My second concern is that I would also like that the VM deployed by the > OpenNebula front end to the hypervisor could access a Distributed File > System and store their data on it. Indeed I expect to have a lot of VM > machines running and I noticed that making a snapshot before stopping a VM > takes some time. With a DFS I would a have increased security, more > scalability and I could stop a VM directly since the data would be stored > elsewhere and so increase performances. However I didn't really found > something that fit my needs in the documentation or in the internet. > Apparently DFS such as MooseFS exist but what I would like is to be able to > connect Unix VM to it but also Windows VM, and MooseFS is Unix only from > what I undestand. My idea is actually to build something similar to Amazon > EBS, I know it's possible with Eucalyptus which I am also testing in the > meantime but I have no idea how to do it with OpenNebula right now and it > would be something we would really like to have. > > Thanks, > > -- > Alexandre Fouchs > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > >
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