[linux-lvm] SAN
Jonathan Tripathy
jonnyt at abpni.co.uk
Fri Apr 22 16:42:25 UTC 2011
On 22/04/2011 17:38, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
>
>> What is the best way to deploy LVM in such a way that multiple
>> servers could access the LVs? Really what I'm looking for is a
>> "common VG" for all of our servers. Note though that only one server
>> will actually access each LV, however it would be cool if another
>> server could make a snapshot to perform an rsync backup.
>
> This is what cluster LVM is for. It provides a locking mechanism to
> avoid conflicting changes to LVM metadata.
>
I'm a little confused on where CLVM fits into the "big picture". Let's
say I have one SAN server, and 10 Xen Servers. Where do I install CLVM?
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