Hi again Mike,
>> Thanks for your response. Has this been working well for you?
>
> I've only used it in testing.
Ah okay.
>> I assume those commands have to specified on each host that needs to
>> use the shared storage.
>
> The pvcreate and vgcreate only need to be run on one host. The other hosts
> pick up on the settings because LVM details are written to the disks.
Very good. Thanks for explaining that.
>> Does this require LVM to use any kind of locking?
>
> This doesn't give me locking. I'm not comfortable with that.
>
> CLVM does give you clustered locking but I haven't got that working.
Okay. If I understand correctly, live migration basically passes the
contents of memory to the new machine and then hands over control of the
disk anyway - which means locking wouldn't technically be required. Is
that right?
Thanks for your help in this, Mike!
Yours,
Tom
Received on Tue Nov 11 2008 - 01:44:39 GMT