[Linux-cluster] architecture discussion -- NFS clustering with iSCSI

[Bas van der Vlies]

Terry wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2008 9:57 AM,  <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
>>> Also, two more questions:
>>> 1) What about putting this NFS cluster in VMware?
>>> 2) I am assuming this would have to be an active-standby model since
>>> only 1 host can "own" the disk in read/write, correct?
>> No, the whole point of GFS is that you can have multiple nodes mounting
>> and using the same volume r/w at the same time.
>>
>> Gordan
>>
> 
> OK, that makes sense.  My other question is what other filesystems
> does Red Hat support that can be used in this fashion?  PVFS, OCFS,
> etc. ?

We use gfs for a scalable NFS-server. We have one filesysteem on fibre disk 
array  and 5 gfs servers mount this filesystem. The 5 gfs servers export 
this filesystem as NFS to +/- 800 nodes.

This is our setup for gfs/nfs

Regards

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