Re: [Xen-users] san configuration with xen

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 04:49:12AM -0800, krabbit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi guys, i'm newbie in xen and i'm studying it for my stage at  
> university. i successfully installed xen 3.0.3 on red hat es 4 on a  
> couple of server. now i have a question. i have a san EMC Clariion  
> attached to them with a fiber channel switch and i would like to use  
> that as shared storage for testing live migration, and all features of  
> xen systems. linux systems recognize SAN as sda device and then i can  
> mount it normally. what type of FS may i use to grant concurrency  
> access and consistency to san for both servers? i tried to format in a  
> normal ext3 fs, but when i act changes with server A, server B must  
> umount and remount partition to see that changes, and it doesn't  
> recognized the owner, group and permission of that file. could u help  
> me to follow a right procedure to prepare san for my test?
> I saw some emails that speak about nfs, Aoe, Gfs, clvm, but i think in  
> that way i need to have a daemon server, like nfs, that manage access.  
> there are aternatives?
> Thanx for all

CLVM would be a good choise for creating LVM volumes on a shared storage.

- Pasi

> Regards
>             nicola
> 

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