Re: who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

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On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Lars Hecking
<lhecking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Emmanuel Noobadmin writes:
>> On 8/3/10, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > I'm considering setting up a Lustre cluster system for our XEN virtual
>> > machines as shared storage, mainly for high availability on our XEN
>> > VPS servers.
>> >
>> > Does anyone use Lustre in a production environment?
>> > What is your opinions / experiences with it?
>>
>> I haven't used Lustre but was also researching on using it for same
>> purpose as shared storage for VMs. Dropped it in the end from
>> consideration after some discussion on the Lustre mailing list points
>> out that it's more intended for high performance rather than high
>> availability. So it might not be that suitable as a HA solution.
>>
>> Have you considered trying Gluster instead?
>
>  What do Gluster or Lustre offer that the builtin Red Hat Cluster Suite
>  does not?


less documentation?

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