[Lustre-discuss] VMWare or VirtualBox..

2008-08-15 Thread Robert Gordon
Would anyone happen to have an pre installed image of the lustre 'stack' available ? Robert. ___ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss

Re: [Lustre-discuss] VMWare or VirtualBox..

2010-05-28 Thread Andreas Dilger
On 2010-05-26, at 02:14, arunas.bruo...@bt.com wrote: > I’m an IT administrator and have recently started playing w/ lustre and was > wondering if there’s any way it could play with VMWare ESX as > shared/distributed storage. > I saw your posting from ’08 > (http://www.mail-archive.com/lustre-di

Re: [Lustre-discuss] VMWare or VirtualBox..

2008-08-15 Thread Klaus Steden
Hi Robert, You're likely to find that performance will suffer when run under a VM. Lustre makes pretty extensive use of all the resources at its disposal, and having to compete with physical devices under a VM that runs as an ordinary user process is more than likely going to lead to resource dea

Re: [Lustre-discuss] VMWare or VirtualBox..

2008-08-17 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
There seem to be a couple of assumptions here that would be worth examining further. My first thought is that running Lustre under something like Xen might be very usefull for virtualization, failover, and load balancing. If there is some potential resource deadlock that could occur, there ought

Re: [Lustre-discuss] VMWare or VirtualBox..

2008-08-18 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Aug 17, 2008 09:08 -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > There seem to be a couple of assumptions here that would be worth > examining further. > > My first thought is that running Lustre under something like Xen might > be very usefull for virtualization, failover, and load balancing. > > If ther