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Hi there,
AFAIK VMWare utilise it's own filesystem vmfs for performance and efficiency reasons.
What will that be if I host my VMs on an Openfiler server which setup as NAS using ext3 filesystem?
Thanks
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The more I look into ESX the more often i have to handle cases where the partition table of a disk with a VMFS volume gets corrupted.
The reasons for this can be
* idiot user
* failed update
* power failure
* ....
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I want to add a new harddisk to an existing VM and want the best performance possible. The new hard disk will exist on an NFS datastore. Currently I did the following:
Created new vmdk on NFS datastore
Created new lvm partition using fdisk
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Existing setup:
host1 and host2, ESX 4.0, 2 HBAs each.
lun1 and lun2, 2 LUNs belonging to the same RAID set (my terminology might be sketchy here).
This has been working just fine all along.
I added host3, ESXi 4.1, 2 HBAs.
If I view Configuration / Storage Adapters, I can see that both HBAs…
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Existing setup:
host1 and host2, ESX 4.0, 2 HBAs each.
lun1 and lun2, 2 LUNs belonging to the same RAID set (my terminology might be sketchy here).
This has been working just fine all along.
I added host3, ESXi 4.1, 2 HBAs.
If I view Configuration / Storage Adapters, I can see that both HBAs…
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I currently have a cluster of two ESX 3.5U2 servers connected directly via FiberChannel to a NetApp 3020 cluster. These hosts mount four VMFS LUNs for virtual machine storage. Currently these LUNs are only made available via our FiberChannel initator in the Netapp configuration
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I've just upgraded to the latest 12.10 beta. Rebooted twice.
The problem is with the NFS folders not mounting, here's a verbose log.
# mount -v myserver:/nfs_shared/tools /tools/
mount: no type was given - I'll assume nfs because of the colon
mount.nfs: timeout set for Mon Oct 1 11:42:28 2012
mount…
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I have a machine that I need to bridge NFS files to. Can I mount an NFS directory on machine2 from machine1 and then mount the mounted NFS directory on machine2 on machine3 via NFS? Do you see any problems with that? I am basically bridging some subnet domains this way, in a certain fashion. My development…
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Having a strange problem with NFS share and file permissions on the 1 out of the 2 NFS clients, web1 has file permissions issues but web2 is fine. web1 and web2 are load balanced web servers.
So questions are:
how do I ensure NFS share file contents retain the same permissions
for user/group as…
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Recently I've designed and configured a 4 node cluster for a webapp that does lots of file handling. The cluster have been broken down into 2 main roles, webserver and storage. Each role is replicated to a second server using drbd in active/passive mode. The webserver does a NFS mount of the data…
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When running:
`sudo mount -t nfs4 -o sec=krb5 sol.domain.com:/ /mnt`
I get this error on the client:
mount.nfs4: access denied by server while mounting sol.domain.com:/
And on the server syslogs
UNKNOWN_SERVER: authtime 0, nfs/[email protected] for nfs/ip-#-#-#-#.ec2.internal@SOL…
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