Re: [Linux-cluster] failing to grasp

2010-03-15 Thread Michael @ Professional Edge LLC
I'm sure others can provide a much more in depth answer but in short... Not all "file systems" are cluster aware. Something like GFS can be active on all nodes at the same time; because it uses a lock manager that makes every node in your cluster "chat" with each other to determine who is writ

Re: [Linux-cluster] Storage Cluster Newbie Questions - any helpwith answers greatly appreciated!

2010-03-15 Thread Michael @ Professional Edge LLC
tag so the lv will be active on one system RH-Cluster supports floating LVs on its own, just add the LV + FS as resource. If you're not using a LUN for mirror-logging, your're moving the LVs from one system to the other at the cost of one full rebuild of the host based mirror. Regards A

Re: [Linux-cluster] Storage Cluster Newbie Questions - any help with answers greatly appreciated!

2010-03-15 Thread Michael @ Professional Edge LLC
ing 3 changes. 1. Modify /etc/modprobe.conf - and comment out the line "#alias scsi_hostadapter2 qla2xxx" 2. Rebuild the init - I use this - "mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)" 3. Add "blacklist qla2xxx" - to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist -Micha

Re: [Linux-cluster] Storage Cluster Newbie Questions - any help with answers greatly appreciated!

2010-03-15 Thread Michael @ Professional Edge LLC
y thing to the blacklist... :-) OK... at least I can proceed with my testing again. Thank You! -Michael Kaloyan Kovachev wrote, On 3/15/2010 1:41 AM: Hello, On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:28:20 -0700, Michael @ Professional Edge LLC wrote Kaloyan, I agree - disabling the qla2xxx driver (Qlogic H

Re: [Linux-cluster] Storage Cluster Newbie Questions - any help with answers greatly appreciated!

2010-03-14 Thread Michael @ Professional Edge LLC
t on par with what I was thinking... which is I - would like to - wait a few more releases before I play with that in a Production mode. -Michael Rafael Micó Miranda wrote, On 3/11/2010 3:13 PM: Hi Michael El mié, 03-03-2010 a las 11:16 -0800, Michael @ Professional Edge LLC escribió: Hail

Re: [Linux-cluster] Storage Cluster Newbie Questions - any help with answers greatly appreciated!

2010-03-14 Thread Michael @ Professional Edge LLC
can already see all LUNs - so I dont really have any need to do an iSCSI export - appreciate the thought though. -Michael Kaloyan Kovachev wrote, On 3/4/2010 10:28 AM: On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:26:35 -0800, Michael @ Professional Edge LLC wrote Hello Kaloyan, Thank you for the thoughts. Yo

Re: [Linux-cluster] Storage Cluster Newbie Questions - any help with answers greatly appreciated!

2010-03-04 Thread Michael @ Professional Edge LLC
-LVM - so far doesn't seem very possible. -Michael Kaloyan Kovachev wrote, On 3/4/2010 8:52 AM: Hi, On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:16:07 -0800, Michael @ Professional Edge LLC wrote Hail Linux Cluster gurus, I have researched myself into a corner and am looking for advice. I've never

Re: [Linux-cluster] Storage Cluster Newbie Questions - any help with answers greatly appreciated!

2010-03-03 Thread Michael @ Professional Edge LLC
410.688.3873 "Red Hat Ranked as #1 Software Vendor for Fifth Time in CIO Insight Study" - Original Message - From: "Michael @ Professional Edge LLC" To: "Leo Pleiman" Cc: "linux clustering" Sent: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 3:37:09 PM GMT -05:00 US/C

Re: [Linux-cluster] Storage Cluster Newbie Questions - any help with answers greatly appreciated!

2010-03-03 Thread Michael @ Professional Edge LLC
eiman Senior Consultant Red Hat Consulting Services 410.688.3873 "Red Hat Ranked as #1 Software Vendor for Fifth Time in CIO Insight Study" - Original Message - From: "Michael @ Professional Edge LLC" To: linux-cluster@redhat.com Sent: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 2:16:07

[Linux-cluster] Storage Cluster Newbie Questions - any help with answers greatly appreciated!

2010-03-03 Thread Michael @ Professional Edge LLC
Hail Linux Cluster gurus, I have researched myself into a corner and am looking for advice. I've never been a "clustered storage guy", so I apologize for the potentially naive set of questions. ( I am savvy on most other aspects of networks, hardware, OS's etc... but not storage systems).