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From: Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@abpni.co.uk>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] SAN
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:42:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DB1AFF1.7000800@abpni.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1104221236420.8342@bmsred.bmsi.com>


On 22/04/2011 17:38, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
>
>> What is the best way to deploy LVM in such a way that multiple 
>> servers could access the LVs? Really what I'm looking for is a 
>> "common VG" for all of our servers. Note though that only one server 
>> will actually access each LV, however it would be cool if another 
>> server could make a snapshot to perform an rsync backup.
>
> This is what cluster LVM is for.  It provides a locking mechanism to
> avoid conflicting changes to LVM metadata.
>
I'm a little confused on where CLVM fits into the "big picture". Let's 
say I have one SAN server, and 10 Xen Servers. Where do I install CLVM?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-22 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-22 16:28 [linux-lvm] SAN Jonathan Tripathy
2011-04-22 16:38 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-04-22 16:42   ` Jonathan Tripathy [this message]
2011-04-22 17:22     ` Jonathan Tripathy

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