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Re: [Xen-users] Sharing space on a SAN?

To: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Sharing space on a SAN?
From: Ferenc Wagner <wferi@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:32:48 +0200
Cc: Olivier Le Cam <Olivier.LeCam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Van Biesen <peter.vanbiesen@xxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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"James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> Olivier Le Cam <Olivier.LeCam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>>> My SAN is able to provide up to 32 lun's, which is quite
>>> insufficient for the number of domUs I need: I've got 5 dom0s,
>>> which I intent to run +/- 10 domUs per dom0s on. Some of them are
>>> databases with a dedicated logical drive on the SAN for the datas
>>> in additition to the root filesystem, which means 2 lun's per
>>> domUs in that case.
>>>
>>> What could you suggest in that situation?
>> 
>> Use clvm.  That way 1 shared LU is enough for the whole cluster.
>
> Does clvm support snapshots these days?

Doesn't look like so, see
https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2008-October/msg00025.html
and the followup.
-- 
Feri.

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