Re: EVMS or Cluster LVM

"Ciro Iriarte" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.oracle.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2008/6/6 Olivier BOYAVAL <[email protected]>:
>  Hi,
>
> I want to create a farm Xen server on a SAN. I don't want to work with disk
> file for DomU and I would like to use LVM to manage partition on the LUN.
>
> LVM isn't cluster aware and Novell docs tell us to use EVMS instead.
>
> But EVMS is depreciated, no update since 2006 and IBM discontinued
> development of this project.
>
> I found some web page on CLVM but SLES LVM2 isn't compiled with it.
>
> Any ideas to make this farm server other than using ocsf2 ?
>
> --
> Olivier Boyaval
> Direction du Système d'Information Hospitalier
> Responsable équipe maîtrise d'oeuvre informatique
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> Fax : 03.21.64.44.38

I'm seeing i/o wait of about 100% with file disk images on OCFS2 and I
agree it's not a good idea... I'm going with a LUN per domU as i'm not
going to run too many of them, if you're the SAN admin or you can nag
him frequently, it's a good route.

Another option is to use plain LVM, the only catch is that when you
need to modify metadata (resize, new volume creation), only one node
can be online.

Regards,

Ciro
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