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<p><tt><font size="2">> Dean,<br>
> I'll look in to those. Thanks. Are those all in 4.1 and in the new<br>
> protocol servers? Does HAWC work when the client is over NFS? I assume<br>
> the server would take care of it.. Haven't read much yet.</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font size="2">FGDB was in 3.4 I believe, and HAWC is in 4.1.1 ptf1....but there are other items that helped performance for these environments, so using the latest is always best :) Yes, hawc is independent of nfs...its all in gpfs.</font></tt><br>
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> <br>
> Christoph,<br>
> Looks like that RDM is only for ESX (the older linux-based<br>
> hypervisor), not ESXi. AFAIK there's no GPFS client that can run on<br>
> ESXi yet, so the only options are remote mounting GPFS via NFS on the<br>
> Hypervisor to store the VMs.<br>
> Or, inside the VM, but that's not what I want.<br>
> <br>
> Simon,<br>
> I'm talking about on the hypervisor. Looking for a way to use GPFS to<br>
> store VMs instead of standing up a SAN, but want it to be safe and<br>
> consistent. Thus my worry about backing VM disks by NFS backed by<br>
> GPFS...</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font size="2">>50% of VMWare deployments use NFS... and NFS+GPFS obeys nfs semantics, so together your VMs are just as safe as with a SAN.</font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">Dean</font></tt><br>
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> <br>
> -Zach<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 2:57 AM, Simon Thompson (Research Computing -<br>
> IT Services) <S.J.Thompson@bham.ac.uk> wrote:<br>
> > When you say VMware, do you mean to the hypervisor or vms? Running<br>
> vms can of course be gpfs clients.<br>
> ><br>
> > Protocol servers use nfs ganesha server, but I've only looked at <br>
> smb support.<br>
> ><br>
> > Simon<br>
> > ________________________________________<br>
> > From: gpfsug-discuss-bounces@gpfsug.org [gpfsug-discuss-<br>
> bounces@gpfsug.org] on behalf of Zachary Giles [zgiles@gmail.com]<br>
> > Sent: 03 September 2015 15:59<br>
> > To: gpfsug main discussion list<br>
> > Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS for DBs..MySQL, PGSQL, etc; How about VMware?<br>
> ><br>
> > On that same note...<br>
> > How about VMware?<br>
> > Obviously I guess really the only way would be via NFS export.. which<br>
> > cNFS was .. not the best at (my opinion). Maybe Protocol Servers are<br>
> > better? Maybe also a "don't do it"?<br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks,<br>
> > -Zach<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
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