[Gluster-users] Gluster 3.0 with VMware ESX 4

Harshavardhana harsha at gluster.com
Fri Dec 18 08:43:16 UTC 2009


Does the Glusterfs just hangs without responding?. Does the hang go on
infinitely or are you able to interrupt in the middle?.

Regards
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Harshavardhana
Gluster - http://www.gluster.com


On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Nicola Moresi <nicola at moresi.com> wrote:

>  Hello Harshavardhana
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> Nope, the ESX Server are installed with Linux and I place the virtual hard
> disk files on gluster.
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> So I can use Gluster to host the Virtual Machines.
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> Nicola Moresi
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> www.moresi.com
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> *Da:* harshavardhanacool at gmail.com [mailto:harshavardhanacool at gmail.com] *Per
> conto di *Harshavardhana
> *Inviato:* giovedì, 17. dicembre 2009 23:49
> *A:* Nicola Moresi
> *Cc:* gluster-users at gluster.org
> *Oggetto:* Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster 3.0 with VMware ESX 4
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> Hi Nicola,
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>     Are you using NFS export on windows machines?.
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> Regards
> --
> Harshavardhana
> Gluster - http://www.gluster.com
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>  On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Nicola Moresi <nicola at moresi.com>
> wrote:
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> Dear All,
>
> I'm evaluating Gluster 3.0 with VMware ESX 4.
> I have one physical server (with 1 SATA HD) installed with Gluster.
> It's connected on a Gbit Switch with the port VMKernel of VMware. A single
> switch only for this storage.
> I create the volume and on Gluster everything works perfect. The logs are
> clear with the startup. Also do a reboot.
>
> I connect the NFS volume with the GUI of VMware. Works perfect.
> I browse the empty store from the GUI and works. I create a directory and
> it works.
> I try to browse the directory and the GUI hags... it take minutes for
> displaying the empty folder.
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> I created a new VM and placed on this Store. Works great
> As soon as the machine start and start allocating space, it hang and is
> unresponsive.
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> I connect with SSH to the console of my VMware server.
> I try to copy one virtual machine image file from another store, to the
> store assigned to Gluster.
> It hangs, take minutes to browse and hang on copying.
> No error on the Gluster log
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> Any ideas?
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> To have VMware work also with VMotion I have to setup the NFS with the GUI,
> I can mount normal on the file system.
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> Thanks for the Help.
> Nicola
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> Nicola Moresi
> http://www.moresi.com
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