[Lustre-discuss] lustre as a shared filesystem for vmware?

[Jay Christopherson]

Nope, it does not *have* to be ESX and I was starting to think about using
VMware Server last night for the reasons you stated.  I would prefer ESX,
but I am not sure its going to be possible.

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Kevin Kelly <kevin at terascala.com> wrote:

>  Jay –
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> Do you need to use ESX? ESX can use images (instead of block devices) but
> the client is still an issue.
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> We have used Lustre as a shared file system for VMware Server (GSX). Since
> that product relies on a host, you can set up the Lustre client and get it
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> Also – the distro of Linux can impact your success – Suse seems to have an
> easier time with it.
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> Kevin
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> Kevin Kelly
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