The only way I know of to get InfiniBand
working with XCP is by manually doing it using the DDK. By default, XCP does
not support InfiniBand even though it is based off an OS that does support
InfiniBand.
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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Shared
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I am not 100% familiar with the internals of XCP but
after taking a glance it's based off a Centos 5.4 kernel I believe which is
OFED compatible.
You could simply install the OFED RPM and have full
Infiniband support. IPoIB is fine for iSCSI based storage etc.
Joseph.
On 27 April 2011 22:44, <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I really like
InfiniBand. However, it is not supported with XCP.
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Subject: [Xen-users] Shared
Storage
SR is the Xen Cloud Platform storage manager deamon I
think.
But yes, cLVM is not required to build a setup where a single large LUN is
exported to multiple hypervisors as long as you manage the LVM metadata on a
single host. If you need to manage it on multiple hosts make sure you script
running an lvscan on the other hosts to switch the logical volumes to active.
If you are running a RHEL environment I highly suggest looking into cLVM and
the rest of the RHEL cluster suite as it makes alot of what you are trying to
do alot easier. If not there is plenty of room left for hackery. :)
For those that have suggested Infiniband I would also put my vote behind it.
Our solutions are developed on Infiniband and are some of the fastest in the
world (or fastest in the case of cloud storage) and we are yet to saturate the
bandwith of bonded DDR which is 40gbit. Price per port it is not that far from
10GbE but much more useful and resilient.
Joseph.
On 27 April 2011 03:01, John Madden <jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Am I missing something here? Is it possible to do live
migrations
using SR type LVMoiSCSI? The reason I ask is because the discussion
made me think it would not be possible.
I don't know what "SR" means but yes, you
can do live migrations even without cLVM. All cLVM does is ensure
consistency in LVM metadata changes across the cluster. Xen itself
prevents the source and destination dom0's from trashing the disk during live
migration. Other multi-node trashings are left to lock managers like
OCFS2, GFS, not-being-dumb, etc.
John
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Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
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