Hi, On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 14:26 +0100, carlopmart wrote: > Steven Whitehouse wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 12:57 +0100, carlopmart wrote: > >> Steven Whitehouse wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 11:50 +0100, carlopmart wrote: > >>>> Hi all, > >>>> > >>>> I need to setup a rhcs with two nodes to use it for delivery storage for vmware > >>>> esxi 4 and rhel5.4 kvm hosts. > >>>> > >>>> Which type of filesystem is best to use on this topology to serve it via NFS for > >>>> esxi and rhel5.4 kvm hosts: gfs2 or ext4?? > >>>> > >>> That depends on whether you need multiple nodes exporting the same > >>> filesystem or not. > >> I need to export only for 1 esxi host and 1 rhel5.4 kvm host (at this first stage. > >> It is expected to grow until 4 esxi hosts and 2 rhel5.4 kvm hosts). And I need to > >> export same filesystems to both and all future hosts ... > >> > >> > >> > >> > > I'm not sure I understand. How many physical hosts have you got, and how > > many virtual hosts and how are the virtual hosts arranged on the > > physical hosts? > > Sorry, I will try to explain: > > - Physical hypervisor hosts: 2, one esxi and one rhel5.4 kvm. On a second planned > phase (next months) will be six physical hosts: 4 esxi and 2 rhel5.4. > > - Virtual machines: 20 (windows, solaris and linux). Over next months will be more. > > - KVM guests: 6 virtual machines. all redhat based acting as a mysql servers, > apache services and smtp services. > > - VMware guests: 14 virtual guests, most of them Windows 2008 R2 guests serving > web pages, acting as a file servers, etc. A few Windows 7 guests for VDI. > Assuming that you intend to share one fs across multiple physical hosts for storing VM images, then that rules out ext4, Steve. -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
