have you checked this thread? http://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.opennebula.org/msg05560.html
they discuss other option for distributed / shared storage subsystems On 16/03/12 08:41, Hans-Joachim Ehlers wrote: >> ...GPFS ... >> apologies for hijacking the thread - is there a specific way to configure >> this filesystem to work with OpenNebula? >> how should we go about to enable this? > To more precise: We will use GPFS as the clustered FS for our KVM hosts. If > OpenNebula works with it - fine. If not then OpenNebula is out. > > Technical speaking: > 3 IO Nodes will serving the GPFS . The KVM Hosts will have a GPFS client thus > accessing the storage over the network but this approach is not limited to a > GPFS client. > > GPFS supports SAN Storage and local storage. You can scale your storage ( > More disk ) and your Bandwidth ( More IO Nodes ) > > You can use NFS, CIFS or AppleTalk ( Do not remember the name for the apple > fs ) > > SAN <-FC-> IO_NODEs <- ETH / GPFS -> KVM_NODES > Or > SAN <-FC-> IO_NODEs <- ETH / cNFS -> KVM_NODES ( Standard NFS / Clusters NFS > ) > Or > SAN <-FC-> IO_NODEs <- ETH / pNFS -> KVM_NODES ( parallel NFS ) > Or > SAN <-FC-> IO_NODEs <- ETH / CIFS -> KVM_NODES ( SAMBA ) > > > > To answer your question: Since ONE is not yet tested in our environment i can > not tell. I would assume that ONE only needs to know whether a FS is shared > one or a none shared one. > > The setup of GPFS is a different issue. > > BTW: Parallel NFS http://www.pnfs.com/ ( pNFS , NFS 4.1 ) is afaik available > as well. Maybe there are OpenSource pNFS solution out there. IMHO its looks > like a promising cluster FS as well. > > Sorry for not being able to provide an better answer > Hajo > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.opennebula.org > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.opennebula.org http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org