Re: who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

[Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 at 3:45pm, Lars Hecking wrote

> Emmanuel Noobadmin writes:
>>
>> 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?

One does not need shared storage for Gluster.  Each storage brick has its 
own storage, and Gluster handles replication/distribution across the 
nodes.  Also, according to RH's site, RHCS is limited to 16 nodes. 
Gluster has no such limit.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF
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