I'm curious if anyone else has run into this problem, and if so, what
solutions they use to get around it.
We are using Vmware Esxi servers with an Opensolaris NFS backend. This
allows us to leverage all the awesomeness of ZFS, including the snapshots
and clones. The best feature of this is we can create a vmware guest
template (centos/ubuntu/win/whatever) and use the snapshot/cloning to make
an instant copy of that machine, and it will hardly take any additional
space (initially that is). Everything is great.
My issue is that vmware esx only allows you a limit of 32 nfs mounts. And
because of this we can't seem to get any more than 32 servers (from nfs).
Every single vmware machine is it's own zvol. I tried making my nfs mount to
higher zvol level. But I cannot traverse to the sub-zvols from this mount.
Another thing I tried was adding another nic to the vmware server. But
you cannot have more than one vmkernel on the same subnet.
Does anyone have any experience with overcoming these limitations?
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HUGE
David Stahl
Systems Administrator
718 233 9164 / F 718 625 5157
www.hugeinc.com <http://www.hugeinc.com>
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