[one-users] Distributed File System with OpenNebula

[Shankhadeep Shome]

Look into glusterfs if you need windows and unix machines to talk.
On Mar 22, 2012 4:57 PM, "Alexandre Fouchs" <alexandrefouchs at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I recently installed OpenNebula in a test environment for evaluation
> purpose and got it working with a VMware ESXi5 hypervisor.
>
> Right now I have 3 machines:
>
> - the front end with OpenNebula installed
> - the hypervisor with ESXi
> - the storage, mounted both on the front end and on the hypervisor by
> using NFS
>
>
> My concern is now how does it really work ? For example if I have 2
> hypervisors or more, would it be possible to access the same share space
> with something else than NFS ? And would it be seen as one unique system
> from a user point of view (with loadbalancing I assume) ?
> We would prefer not to use NFS but I haven't seen alternatives yet.
>
> My second concern is that I would also like that the VM deployed by the
> OpenNebula front end to the hypervisor could access a Distributed File
> System and store their data on it. Indeed I expect to have a lot of VM
> machines running and I noticed that making a snapshot before stopping a VM
> takes some time. With a DFS I would a have increased security, more
> scalability and I could stop a VM directly since the data would be stored
> elsewhere and so increase performances. However I didn't really found
> something that fit my needs in the documentation or in the internet.
> Apparently DFS such as MooseFS exist but what I would like is to be able to
> connect Unix VM to it but also Windows VM, and MooseFS is Unix only from
> what I undestand. My idea is actually to build something similar to Amazon
> EBS, I know it's possible with Eucalyptus which I am also testing in the
> meantime but I have no idea how to do it with OpenNebula right now and it
> would be something we would really like to have.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Alexandre Fouchs
>
>
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