[one-users] Shared File System HA

[Nicolas Diogo]

have you checked this thread?
http://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.opennebula.org/msg05560.html

they discuss other option for distributed / shared storage subsystems



On 16/03/12 08:41, Hans-Joachim Ehlers wrote:
>> ...GPFS ...
>> apologies for hijacking the thread - is there a specific way to configure this filesystem to work with OpenNebula?
>> how should we go about to enable this?
> To more precise: We will use GPFS as the clustered FS for our KVM hosts. If OpenNebula works with it - fine. If not then OpenNebula is out.
>
> Technical speaking:
> 3 IO Nodes will serving the GPFS . The KVM Hosts will have a GPFS client thus accessing the storage over the network but this approach is not limited to a GPFS client.
>
> GPFS supports SAN Storage and local storage. You can scale your storage ( More disk ) and your Bandwidth ( More IO Nodes ) 
>
> You can use NFS, CIFS or AppleTalk ( Do not remember the name for the apple fs )
>
> SAN <-FC-> IO_NODEs <- ETH / GPFS -> KVM_NODES 
> Or
> SAN <-FC-> IO_NODEs <- ETH / cNFS -> KVM_NODES  ( Standard NFS / Clusters NFS )
> Or
> SAN <-FC-> IO_NODEs <- ETH / pNFS -> KVM_NODES  ( parallel NFS )
> Or
> SAN <-FC-> IO_NODEs <- ETH / CIFS -> KVM_NODES  ( SAMBA )
>
>
>
> To answer your question: Since ONE is not yet tested in our environment i can not tell. I would assume that ONE only needs to know whether a FS is shared one or a none shared one.
>
> The setup of GPFS is a different issue. 
>
> BTW: Parallel NFS http://www.pnfs.com/  ( pNFS , NFS 4.1 ) is afaik available as well. Maybe there are OpenSource pNFS solution out there. IMHO its looks like a promising cluster FS as well.
>
> Sorry for not being able to provide an better answer
> Hajo
>
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