On Mar 27, 2008, at 4:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>
>> GFS from the Red Hat Cluster Suite is a good solution for
>> this. We're
>> using it on ~1000XenVirtual Machines. It can be finicky to get
>> started with but once you spend some time getting used to its quirks
>> it is the best solution for a clustered filesystem available as open
>> source right now.
>
> I understand this is an older message. I am wondering if anyone has
> experience setting up a solution like this with GFS or other
> distributed file system. What does the hardware setup look like for
> something like this.
>
> I would like to run 50 to 100 xen virtual machines per physical server
> and am running into disk IO bottlenecks. We would like to use lots
> and lots of commodity hard drives rather than an expensive hardware
> solution.
>
> Thoughts or examples on a good setup for this?
What exactly are you trying to do? Do you need a clustered filesystem
or just a bunch more disk IO per server? The best bang for your buck
as far as getting a ton of disk spindles is coraid san's using AoE.
http://coraid.com/pdfs/datasheets/EtherDriveSR2461.pdf
We use tons of these systems with high performance disks as well as
off the shelf 400gig SATA commodity drives. The Xen domU's see a
direct block device exported from the dom0 that talks to the coraid
over AoE.
Cheers-
- Ezra Zygmuntowicz
-- Founder & Software Architect
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