[xenpreview-dev] Xen and Shared storage / SAN

[Fraser Campbell]

Thanks Clyde.  If you could copy me personally as well that would be 
helpful.  I will subscribe to that list now and review archives as well.

Clyde Griffin wrote:
> We'll get back to you on the evms-devel mailing list.
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> Look for a post from Robert Wipfel or Changju Gao.
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> Clyde
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>>>>On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at  9:27 AM, in message
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> <4443B3D8.5040306 at georgetown.wehave.net>, Fraser Campbell
> <fraser at georgetown.wehave.net> wrote: 
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>>Hi,
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>>We want to use SAN for storing Xen guests.  We want to use physical 
>>devices (volumes in LVM speak) not loopback files since we expect 
>>performance on an LV will be significantly better than performance of
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> a 
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>>loopback mount on top of a clustered filesystem (OCFS2 for example).
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>>Does anyone have any documentation on how to set up the EVMS hb2
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> plugin 
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>>recently added by Novell (evms- ha- 2.5.5)?  We are hoping that EVMS
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> with 
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>>hb2 or ha plugins can be used to effectively share SAN slices across
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> a 
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>>cluster of Xen machines.
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>>If I do manage to get this going I will be happy to document it but
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> so 
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>>far I can find *zero* documentation.
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>>Thanks,
>>Fraser
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