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Setup OCFS2 on REHL for VMware vCloud Director
My experience with Linux is very limited and I am not sure how to setup an OCFS2 cluster that is going to be used by two Red Hat servers.
What I am trying to do. I have two Red Hat 6.2 VMs that are going to be used for vCloud Director. Part of the setup requires mounting a shared NFS volume. Unfortunately I only have access to a Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN, so I can't setup a NFS share.
From what I read, using an OCFS share should work since both servers can read/write at the same time. If there is a better way to do this, please let me know.
I have found a bunch of websites about OCFS, but none seem to have great instructions for someone not overly familiar with Linux. I am looking for something pretty straight forward such as:
1. yum install ocfs
2. Configure ocfs
3. mount ocfs
What I am trying to do. I have two Red Hat 6.2 VMs that are going to be used for vCloud Director. Part of the setup requires mounting a shared NFS volume. Unfortunately I only have access to a Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN, so I can't setup a NFS share.
From what I read, using an OCFS share should work since both servers can read/write at the same time. If there is a better way to do this, please let me know.
I have found a bunch of websites about OCFS, but none seem to have great instructions for someone not overly familiar with Linux. I am looking for something pretty straight forward such as:
1. yum install ocfs
2. Configure ocfs
3. mount ocfs
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Openfiler's definitely another good choice; I don't often recommend it, though, because it seems to have a steeper learning curve than FreeNAS. (And the Openfiler folks want to charge for the manual.)
If you're already familiar with it, then go for it.
If you're already familiar with it, then go for it.
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Staying away from OCFS2 was a good idea. It seems there are a lot of ways to setup a NFS share. I ended up just creating a CentOS VM with storage attached to our EqualLogic. Then installed nfs-utils and created a NSF share. It was extremely easy and we already have plenty of CentOS VMs that we support.
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