A few comments below. On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 12:30 -0800, Wes Modes wrote: > I have some general clustered filesystem questions for you. I'm wading > > 1) First several online sources have pointed me to the Microsoft > Clustered Filesystem doc to set up my linux clustered FSs on vmWare. > Though it deals with MSCS, I can see that it has some applicability. > However, I have yet to find a step-by-step guide to linux clustered > filesystems. Is there a better suited document to guide me thorough the > process of creating shared filesystems on CentOS/RHEL on vmWare across > boxes? http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Global_File_System_2/index.html http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Cluster_Administration/index.html > 2) Is it necessary to create a private network for access to the shared > filesystem as the MSCS doc suggests? Required? No. > 3) So far I've been looking at GFS because it is native to > CentOS/RHEL. Is there a better non-commercial/free choice? Not really. Probably the next most popular is OCFS2. > 4) Is there a clustered filesystem method that supports vmWare HA? > This is important to us. Not sure what you mean. Do you mean fencing? > 5) Seems there at least three different methods to set up GFS (using > parted, using lvmconf, and using iSCSI). If I go with GFS, which method > should I use? GFS2 requires shared storage such as SAN, iSCSI or DRBD. Pick one. >From the RH docs, "While a GFS2 file system may be used outside of LVM, Red Hat supports only GFS2 file systems that are created on a CLVM logical volume." On RHEL6 and clones, clvmd requires cman. GFS2 requires fencing for safety and reliability suitable for production. Dax Kelson Guru Labs -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
