If you do plan to use glusterfs as a vm backing store and use glusterfs replication then look into glusterfs 3.3 beta 3, you will see why as you read the documentation. I am using glusterfs 3.2.6 but without replication to store VMs.
Shank On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Shankhadeep Shome <shank15...@gmail.com>wrote: > GlusterFS clients work just fine inside virtual machines. Make sure you > use vhost_net to get maximum performance to the VM. I was able to push > nearly 8 Gbps to the VMs using the kernel level virtio-net driver. > > http://lwn.net/Articles/346267/ > > Shank > > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Steven C Timm <t...@fnal.gov> wrote: > >> I am also thinking about running the head node as a pure KVM VM through >> virsh, i.e. outside of OpenNebula.**** >> >> Do GlusterFS clients work OK inside of virtual machines? How is the >> performance? Have heard bits and pieces about**** >> >> GlusterFS but not seen the full package in operation,.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Steve Timm**** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* Shankhadeep Shome [mailto:shank15...@gmail.com] >> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 10, 2012 9:35 PM >> *To:* Steven C Timm >> *Cc:* users@lists.opennebula.org >> *Subject:* Re: [one-users] OpenNebula head node as a virtual machine?**** >> >> ** ** >> >> I run the head node as a VM but purely as a KVM vm controlled through >> virsh. The back-end storage is glusterfs presented from the hyper-visor >> nodes themselves.**** >> >> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Steven C Timm <t...@fnal.gov> wrote:**** >> >> Has anyone managed to successfully run the OpenNebula head node in >> OpenNebula 3.x as a virtual machine in production?**** >> >> I am interested in doing this for ease of migration and/or failover with >> heartbeat/DRBD.**** >> >> If so, have you done it with a Shared file system such as GFS, and let >> GFS be seen by the head node VM.**** >> >> **** >> >> Steve Timm**** >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users@lists.opennebula.org >> http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org**** >> >> ** ** >> > >
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