<div dir="ltr">Has anyone tried using a Lustre filesystem as a shared filesystem hosting vmware virtual machines? I was considering how someone might go about doing this, but there is one big issue I'm coming up against, namely: How would you mount the Lustre filesystem on a VMware ESX server? You'd either have to figure out how to install the client (it would change the kernel which would probably be bad on an ESX server...) or somehow export the filesystem from a client via iSCSI.<br>
<br>The problem with exporting a Lustre filesystem via iSCSI and importing as an iSCSI target is that it's not really a "Lustre" client at that point, so I'm thinking this won't work. I guess maybe you could also mount the Lustre FS to a client and try exporting via NFS, but this doesn't really seem like a good solution. Anyhow, if anyone has gone and done this, I'd be interested in knowing how it was done.<br>
<br>Thanks!<br>Jay<br><br><br></div>