Hi all, i'm currently doing some kind of research about cluster-technology for io-intensive applications like file- and printserver in prepress- eviroments. As a total newby to cluster-concepts i was wondering if i could do something like the following with gfs (or other cluster technologies): Several servers acting as one "superserver" hosting some virtualization technology like VMWare. All cluster nodes would use the same shared storage connected via fibrechannel to a fc-switch (This is exactly what gfs is doing, right?) The virtual machines on this host would run standard linux distributions like RedHat ES 4. Especially charming would be the ability to grant storage and cpu needs between the virual machines "on demand". 1. Is it possible? 2. Would i run into io-problems (locking etc)? 3. Where could i find concepts of such installations with benchmarks and reliability tests? Thanks for any help, ./Tom -- Thomas Liesner - c/o Creativ Consulting GmbH, Ratingen Email: t.liesner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP Fingerprint: 7B6B 8364 D205 0FA2 8753 AEE0 70B7 AB3A 06B5 F368 PGP Public Key: http://www.creativ-consulting.de/keys
