Interesting indeed. Does LVM span across multiple storage servers? That is another issue and im not trying to open up a can of worms but what is the advantage of using KVM over xen or even citrix xen server
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Andrew Holway <andrew.hol...@gmail.com>wrote: > Sure. With virtualisation by KVM. (although not sure about the windows and > mac) Maybe VirtualBox? > > I'm currently designing a cloud computing platform that uses NFS for the > worker virtual machines (databases and webservers etc) and the local > storage can be exported using gluster or whatever. > > Say if you have 5 machines. Each machine has a RAID volume. You can use > LVM to carve up this volume so that one VM can use half of it for Gluster > and another VM could use the other half of it for hadoop. > > You can also do the same with individual disks, this disk is for this VM > and this disk is for that vm.. > > Here is a command I use on my centos 6.3 machines to create a VM with > three disks. Each disk is an LVM logical volume. path=/dev/sdb is just as > valid however. > > Took me about a month to properly get my head around KVM. > > virt-install > --connect qemu:///system -n cheese36 -r 11264 > --vcpus=4 > --disk path=/dev/vg0/pcheese36,device=disk,bus=virtio > --disk path=/dev/vg0/cheese36,device=disk,bus=virtio > --disk path=/dev/vg1/cheese36,device=disk,bus=virtio > --vnc > --noautoconsole > --os-type linux > --accelerate > --network=bridge:br0,mac=00:00:00:00:24:00,model=virtio > --pxe > --hvm > > > > > > > 2012/11/27 Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051...@gmail.com> > >> Sadly I have no experience in a cluster environment :( I do have my old >> laptop and hopefully have a 2nd one soon. Is it possible to have a mixed >> cluster with gluster or hadoop or any other clustering technology which is >> a hetrogenous cluster in terms of linux machines and mac machines and if >> someone wants windows machines? >> >> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Andrew Holway >> <andrew.hol...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> not as efficient as gluster I would venture. >>> >>> >>> 2012/11/27 Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051...@gmail.com> >>> >>>> Hey guys I was looking at the hadoop page and it got me wondering. is >>>> it possible to cluster together storage servers? If so how efficient would >>>> a cluster of them be? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jonathan Aquilina >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin >>>> Computing >>>> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >>>> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Jonathan Aquilina >> > > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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