Does the Glusterfs just hangs without responding?. Does the hang go on infinitely or are you able to interrupt in the middle?. Regards -- Harshavardhana Gluster - http://www.gluster.com On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Nicola Moresi <nicola at moresi.com> wrote: > Hello Harshavardhana > > > > Nope, the ESX Server are installed with Linux and I place the virtual hard > disk files on gluster. > > So I can use Gluster to host the Virtual Machines. > > > > Nicola Moresi > > www.moresi.com > > > > > > *Da:* harshavardhanacool at gmail.com [mailto:harshavardhanacool at gmail.com] *Per > conto di *Harshavardhana > *Inviato:* gioved?, 17. dicembre 2009 23:49 > *A:* Nicola Moresi > *Cc:* gluster-users at gluster.org > *Oggetto:* Re: Gluster 3.0 with VMware ESX 4 > > > > Hi Nicola, > > Are you using NFS export on windows machines?. > > Regards > -- > Harshavardhana > Gluster - http://www.gluster.com > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Nicola Moresi <nicola at moresi.com> > wrote: > > Dear All, > > I'm evaluating Gluster 3.0 with VMware ESX 4. > I have one physical server (with 1 SATA HD) installed with Gluster. > It's connected on a Gbit Switch with the port VMKernel of VMware. A single > switch only for this storage. > I create the volume and on Gluster everything works perfect. The logs are > clear with the startup. Also do a reboot. > > I connect the NFS volume with the GUI of VMware. Works perfect. > I browse the empty store from the GUI and works. I create a directory and > it works. > I try to browse the directory and the GUI hags... it take minutes for > displaying the empty folder. > > I created a new VM and placed on this Store. Works great > As soon as the machine start and start allocating space, it hang and is > unresponsive. > > I connect with SSH to the console of my VMware server. > I try to copy one virtual machine image file from another store, to the > store assigned to Gluster. > It hangs, take minutes to browse and hang on copying. > No error on the Gluster log > > Any ideas? > > To have VMware work also with VMotion I have to setup the NFS with the GUI, > I can mount normal on the file system. > > Thanks for the Help. > Nicola > > Nicola Moresi > http://www.moresi.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > >