DRBD is not a solution for me.

I will keep both VMs on, but just one of them will mount the filesystem.
But, I could do that too using GFS2 or OCFS2.

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Mike McClurg <mike.mccl...@citrix.com>wrote:

> On 18/05/12 15:12, Carlos Eduardo Tavares Terra wrote:
>
>> Thanks...
>>
>> I really need to mount RW in both VMs. I am creating a fail-over
>> cluster, using concurrent storage for data.
>> I'll try to create a new vbd and attach it to the other VM.
>>
>> Any other clues?
>>
>
> I'm not sure exactly what you want to do. Are you proposing to plug a
> single VDI read-writeable in two running VMs, at the same time? Or do you
> want to only plug the VDI into two VMs, and only turn the second VM on once
> the first one fails? The second proposal is fine, but the first one will
> likely lead to data corruption.
>
> If you want a solution that's more like the first proposal, then you might
> want to look at setting up DRBD (http://www.drbd.org/) within the guest
> VMs. XCP doesn't have support for using DRBD as a storage repository
> directly, but if you set it up in the guests themselves, you might be able
> to solve your problem.
>
> Mike
>



-- 
Carlos Eduardo Tavares Terra
Red Hat Certified Engineer
Consultor em Infraestrutura de TI
GNU/Linux #413291 [http://counter.li.org]
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