[169251] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VMware Training
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Feb 19 15:07:27 2014
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:06:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CALgc3C7-YJ9sGu1nRcUOmZEo=d2QFk75UuKNGA6fOevrwReb-Q@mail.gmail.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eugeniu Patrascu" <eugen@imacandi.net>
> If you want block storage, just export an iSCSI device to the ESXi machines
> (tgtadm on RedHat is all you need and a few gigs of free space). VMFS is
> cluster aware so you can export the same volume to independent ESXi hosts
> and as long you don't access the same files, you're good to go.
My understanding of "cluster-aware filesystem" was "can be mounted at the
physical block level by multiple operating system instances with complete
safety". That seems to conflict with what you suggest, Eugeniu; am I
missing something (as I often do)?
Cheers,
-- jra
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