Re: KVM FC shared storage

2024-05-20 Thread Kristian Liivak
t: Tuesday, 21 May, 2024 08:47:22 Subject: Re: KVM FC shared storage We once tried to setup PCS cluster with GFS2 In production, and it required a lot of expertise to manage PCS cluster and our experience was very bad with that too, after a year we had to move to NFS due to so many issue. FC wor

Re: KVM FC shared storage

2024-05-20 Thread Vivek Kumar
We once tried to setup PCS cluster with GFS2 In production, and it required a lot of expertise to manage PCS cluster and our experience was very bad with that too, after a year we had to move to NFS due to so many issue. FC works better XenServer, We had almost for 5-6 year with Xenserver And F

Re: KVM FC shared storage

2024-05-20 Thread Andreas S. Kerber
We're running FC with OCFS2 (OS: Oracle Linux 9) on a demo 2 node cluster. Works kind of nice, but of course is not the same as ESXi. For now it works well enough but expanding that to a actual >10 node setup with hundreds of VMs doesn't feel right. Am Mon, May 20, 2024 at 03:48:12PM +0300 schr

RE: KVM FC shared storage

2024-05-20 Thread Alex Mattioli
If you are 100% FC/NVME then OCFS2 is probably the best (or least bad) option. I personally always tried to stick to NFS for KVM, it just works. Reliability wise, I personally consider CEPH to be more reliable (and supportable) than OCFS2. Regards Alex From: Kristian Liivak Sent: Monday, May

Re: KVM FC shared storage

2024-05-20 Thread Dietrich, Alex
Hello Kristian, Take this perspective with a grain of salt given our time spent on this was in a proof-of-concept deployment. We tested iSCSI connectivity with OCFS2 as the underlying technology to provide the shared mount point. We found that throughout the course of host reboots, the reliabi