The "WHY" question wasn't about using SAN backed disks in a VM, it was "WHY do you need to use LVM inside of the VM"
Use LVM on the host to carve out VM disks and then use those luns inside the VM as normal disks. The VM won't know the difference and all of this silliness with the host picking up the volume goes away. I work with SAN's every day. -C On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Marti, Robert <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > All of our VMs on our ESXi cluster are images living on some Luna we present > to every node in the cluster. > > Not to say what you're attempting to do is wrong, just saying that our > understanding was that while a VM touching the SAN directly was an option, it > was not the normal course of things. > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
