We tried using this model with last year with VMWare, and found it to fail. We were using UCARP. I found a number of places on the web indicating that UCARP, Gluster, and NFS would work for VMWare storage, but further discussion really convinced me that the people who proposed it as a solution could only say that it /should/ work, not that it /would/ work. The same article proliferated all over the net. So I wonder if anyone has used it successfully. With that said, CTDB /looks/ like it should work for that, but does it? Has anyone used it? Matt Temple ------ Matt Temple Director, Research Computing Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Runar Ingebrigtsen <runar at rin.no> wrote: > On ma. 22. okt. 2012 kl. 20.02 +0200, Runar Ingebrigtsen wrote: > >> On ma. 22. okt. 2012 kl. 19.11 +0200, Brian Candler wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 06:48:42PM +0200, Runar Ingebrigtsen wrote: >>> >>>> The connection break behavior is to be expected - the TCP >>>> connection >>>> doesn't handle the switch of host. I didn't expect the NFS >>>> client to go >>>> stale. >>>> >>> >>> I can't answer this directly but I did notice something in the 3.3.1 >>> change >>> log which might be relevant: >>> >>> <http://www.gluster.org/**community/documentation/index.** >>> php/GlusterFS_3.3.1<http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/GlusterFS_3.3.1> >>> > >>> >>> >>> "nfs: make NFS filehandles deterministic >>> >>> If you're not on 3.3.1 already, it could be worth trying. >>> >> >> Thank you. I have just realized that there's a built-in NFS server - >> but I set this up with the /etc/exports. >> >> I'll try to use the built-in and see if the problem persists, then try >> 3.3.1 if it does. >> > > So I tried to use the default NFS settings, with no luck. > Then I upgraded to 3.3.1, still with no luck. > > Seems like the NFS connection is unable to perform a failover. I would > really love to hear if someone have this working. > > The reason I want this is to use glusterfs to store virtual machines for > VMware. > > -- > Best Regards > Runar Ingebrigtsen > ______________________________**_________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://supercolony.gluster.**org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-**users<http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20121101/19e5c8e9/attachment-0001.html>
