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<div dir="ltr" >You can run Spectrum Scale with virtual machines. As long as the virtual disks present to the file system as devices, you should be good to go (for example, "cat /proc/partitions" should show your virtual disks as devices). I typically use scsi raw devices with virtual machines and that seems to work well. KVM allows you to share the disks as well between hosts and that's important to emulate more production level uses. It is good for a lab or to try something quickly without provisioning actual machines. We have sometimes used SS with virtual machines in production but we typically recommend bare metal if/when possible.</div>
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<div><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt" >Anyone running SpectrumScale on Virtual Machines (intel)? I’m curious how you manage disks? Do you use RDM’s? Does this even make sense to do? If you have a 2-3 node cluster how do you share the disks across? Do you have VM’s with their own VMDK’s (if not RDM) in each node or is there some way to share access to the same VMDK’s? What are the advantages doing this other than existing HW use? Seems to me for a lab environment or very small nonperformance focused implementation this may be a viable option.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt" >Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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