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Re: [Xen-users] XCP and Openfiler as the storage


  • To: Christopher J Petrolino <cpetrolino@xxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 18:47:05 +0200
  • Cc: cluster@xxxxxxxx, xen-users <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Eduardo Bragatto <eduardo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Christopher J Petrolino
<cpetrolino@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:24 PM,  <cluster@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi Eduardo,
>>>
>>> I am using this scenario (openfiler + XCP) from more than 1 year. I have had
>>> no performance loss but my openfiler is patched for using fibrechannel.
>>>
>>> I suggest you to create only a big LUN (less than 2TB remember) and let XCP
>>> manage it.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> FG
>>
>>
>> I'm just curious,  what do you do of the OpenFiler fails completely?
>> It will fail, sooner or later.
>> What method of standby-NAS / failover do you have in place?
>>
>
>
> Openfiler has some great features built in for replication. For our
> needs it was a no-brainer the cost of 2 BIG openfilers still ended up
> being way under 1 small big name SAN.
>
> _______________________________________________


Yes, it's cheap (cost of hardware only). But how do you handle the
failover? Manually? Are you using NFS of iSCSI?



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