Our assigned Red Hat engineer was on-site today and pointed out the blindingly obvious solution. Can't believe I didn't think of it: Run NFS as a clustered service and have the VMs mount that. That way ANY system - even outside of the cluster - can also access the data. Man, I feel dumb. I should forfeit my RHCE. :-P On Mar 3, 2010, at 12:28 AM, Xavier Montagutelli wrote: > On Tuesday 02 March 2010 23:50:26 Jeff Karpinski wrote: >> I've got a 4 node cluster back-ended with iSCSI storage that's happily >> running 20 or so VMs. I now have a request to present some shared >> storage across several of the VMs and am wondering what's the best way >> to accomplish this. GFS2? Can VMs even communicate back with the cluster >> for lock_dlm to work? >> >> Interested in how others have skinned this cat... > > I don't know if GFS2 is the best way to share data among your VMs. > > But if you go for GFS2, I suppose the clusters should be different : one > cluster for the hosts, and one cluster for the VMs having a shared disk with > GFS2. They have different purposes, you should not mix them. > > > > -- > Xavier Montagutelli Tel : +33 (0)5 55 45 77 20 > Service Commun Informatique Fax : +33 (0)5 55 45 75 95 > Universite de Limoges > 123, avenue Albert Thomas > 87060 Limoges cedex > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
