[TriLUG] Linux Virtualization - Shared filesystems.

[Christopher Covington]

On 09/26/2014 10:48 AM, Matt Pusateri wrote:
> Triluger’s
>
> For virtualization I’ve mostly used VMware with VMFS as that’s the
> 800lb gorilla and most companies won’t think of using something else
> in production. I have used Xen and Xensource, but only with local
> disks or NFS. I now find myself being able to deploy KVM,
> Xen/Xensource/Citrix, etc. But we want to reuse our existing Fiber
> Channel san for shared storage. This brings me to the question of
> what people are using that’s equivalent to VMFS, for shared Linux
> Virtualization file storage? GFS2? OCFS2? I’ve heard GFS2 clusters
> are a nightmare to maintain, but that was a couple of years ago and
> things could have changed. I could build a NFS head off my SAN, but I
> was trying to avoid that.

I find the VirtIO passthrough filesystem to be really convenient for my 
dinky simulation purposes. I'd be curious to hear whether it's at all 
applicable to your scenario.

Cov