Krishna Srinivas <krishna at ...> writes: > > Troy, > > Yes it would work, you can setup 4 servers in a distributed replicated > setup acting as NFS data store for VMWare. If any one of the storage > node goes down it will not be seen by the ESX hosts. Many users use > this type of config for storage HA for NFS datastores. > > You can use SATA or SAS. > > Since you are using 10gb performance should not be a problem. Backend > disks would be the bottleneck and hence you should experiment with a > good raid setup to get maximum backend disk throughput. > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Troy Swaine <troy.swaine at ...> wrote: > > All, > > > > > > > > ?? We are in the process of determining a virtualized infrastructure and > > wanted to hear from > > > > current users of Gluster and VMWare. What we were looking to setup was an HA > > ESXi cluster > > > > (2 heads) with gluster backend (4 bricks to start, replicated/distributed), > > all backend connectivity > > would be 10Gbe. Mainly the storage would be for VM images but may include > > NAS files later. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Troy Hello, We've been looking for a way to have HA for our VMWare datastore, too. (Our single server had a kernel panic last night and took down the VMs.) We're very much interested in a similar setup, using Gluster, but I have a question ... with Gluster NFS, don't you have to choose a specific address of a server to connect to? And if yes, if that node goes down, how does VMWare respond? Matt Temple
