[169266] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VMware Training
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugeniu Patrascu)
Thu Feb 20 06:43:47 2014
In-Reply-To: <4299424.9404.1392840366103.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:43:17 +0200
From: Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- 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)?
>
>
What you are saying is true and from VMware's point of view, an ISCSI
volume is a physical disk.
And you can mount the same ISCSI disk on many VMware hosts. Just write into
different directories on the disk.
Am I missing something in your question ?
Eugeniu
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