Re: [Lustre-discuss] Virtual machines on Lustre

2014-06-12 Thread Andrew Holway
On 12 June 2014 08:52, Oliver Mangold wrote: > On 11.06.2014 20:29, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: > > Odds are that you would be able to do it. How well it would perform, > > and how easy it would be to admin are other questions. :) > > > We did it with KVM and PCI device passthrough for the IB

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Virtual machines on Lustre

2014-06-11 Thread Oliver Mangold
On 11.06.2014 20:29, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: > Odds are that you would be able to do it. How well it would perform, > and how easy it would be to admin are other questions. :) > We did it with KVM and PCI device passthrough for the IB and SAS adapters. Works fine and with little performanc

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Virtual machines on Lustre

2014-06-11 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
Odds are that you would be able to do it. How well it would perform, and how easy it would be to admin are other questions. :) Unless you have other needs for it to be Lustre, you might consider Ceph. I believe that Ceph is used quite commonly to serve VM images. Chris On 06/10/2014 03:41

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Virtual machines on Lustre

2014-06-11 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Andrew Holway wrote: > > On 11 Jun 2014 14:22, "E.S. Rosenberg" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Colin Faber wrote: > >> > >> Yes. Many of the various VM products will work just fine with lustre. > However they will not perform as well

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Virtual machines on Lustre

2014-06-11 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Colin Faber wrote: > Yes. Many of the various VM products will work just fine with lustre. > However they will not perform as well as native hw. > I think he means that the virtual disk images sit on lustre instead of netapp or other storage servers... On Jun 10,

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Virtual machines on Lustre

2014-06-10 Thread Colin Faber
Yes. Many of the various VM products will work just fine with lustre. However they will not perform as well as native hw. On Jun 10, 2014 4:42 PM, "Andrew Holway" wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone had any experience running VMs on Lustre? > > Thanks, > > Andrew > > __

[Lustre-discuss] Virtual machines on Lustre

2014-06-10 Thread Andrew Holway
Hello, Has anyone had any experience running VMs on Lustre? Thanks, Andrew ___ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss