On 03/11/2011 02:53 PM, Corey Kovacs wrote: > My first question, and i think your going to get a lot of this so hang > in there, is why? should be the other way around imho.
Why is simple. I want to create a virtual machine that uses a SAN LUN as it's disk. Does that make sense? I don't know how one could do things "the other way around." SAN-backed virtual machines are pretty normal in the VMWare server world. Plus with a SAN, I can migrate the virtual machines very quickly from host to host, since the vm's disk is always available on the fabric. At least that's the theory. I suppose I could use disk images on a GFS cluster. If anyone has experience in using SANs and virtual machines, please let me know how it's normally done. > Not that I don't think it should work, just trying to understand the > rational behind this. What you could try is called "tagging". > it's a PITA though so your mileage may very greatly. Agreed. Another dirty way is to make a partition in the SAN volume, and map that partition as a whole disk into the VM. That way the LVM partitions are hidden inside it. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
