Ok I understand, that should be supported.
If your problems (freeze, qdisk loose, etc..;) occur when your VMs are under high load (CPU, RAM, disk IOs ?) why don't you configure more VCPUs on your VMs, split the number of VMs accross more LUNs, etc..
The thing to keep in mind, there is no way under ESX to limit the IO rate per VM, and ESX 3.5 doesn't support multipathing, if the bottleneck is more located on the disk subsystem.
2009/6/30 Tiago Cruz <tiagocruz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Not,
What I did:
I have 10 virtual machines.
I have one LUN with 200 GB formated by ESX using VMFS.
Inside this lun, I have a lot of small pieces of 10 GB (the "/" os each
one virtual machine) formated by RHEL 5.x using EXT3.
And my GFS was in another LUN, called DRM (some like Direct Raw Mapping)
where the LUN was delivered to VM without pass "inside" of ESX.
Can you understood of I've complicated ever more? :-p
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On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 23:29 +0200, brem belguebli wrote:
> Not really,
>
>
> VMFS is the clustered filesystem shipped with ESX.
>
>
> If I understand well, you got the source code of GFS that you did
> recompile on your ESX host, is that it ?
>
>
> I think you're already out of support from VMware if so.
>
>
>
>
> 2009/6/30 Tiago Cruz <tiagocruz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Hello Ian,
>
> 'cause AFAIK I can't format one block device with VMFS.
> You can think in VMFS in some like LVM - just one abstraction
> layer and
> not a FS itself :)
>
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>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 12:54 -0700, Ian Hayes wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Tiago Cruz
> <tiagocruz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > Hello, guys.. please... I need to know a little
> thing:
> >
> > I'm using GFS v1 with ESX 3.5 and I'm not very
> happy :)
> > High load from vms, freeze and quorum lost, for
> example.
> >
> > Did you use GFS and witch technology? KVM? Xen?
> VirtualBox?
> > Not Virtual?
> > Witch version are you using? v1 or v2?
> >
> > Are you a happy people using this? =)
> >
> > If you're using ESX, why are you using GFS instead of VMFS?
> >
> >
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