CentOS - Aug 2010 - who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

I'm considering setting up a Lustre cluster system for our XEN virtual
machines as shared storage, mainly for high availability on our XEN
VPS servers.

Does anyone use Lustre in a production environment?
What is your opinions / experiences with it?

One of the main reasons I'm looking at using Lustre is that we have a
few older machines, of different specs that I want to use for storage
purposes. i.e. I don't want to use proprietary, or matching hardware
if I don't want to. Many of these machines are still in good standing
and of good spec (3.2Ghz PIV + HT & 4GB RAM, Core2Duo + 4GB RAM,
single XEON + 4GB RAM, dual core Atoms, etc) Will this work?


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On 8/3/10, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com>
wrote:
> I'm considering setting up a Lustre cluster system for our XEN virtual
> machines as shared storage, mainly for high availability on our XEN
> VPS servers.
>
> Does anyone use Lustre in a production environment?
> What is your opinions / experiences with it?
I haven't used Lustre but was also researching on using it for same
purpose as shared storage for VMs. Dropped it in the end from
consideration after some discussion on the Lustre mailing list points
out that it's more intended for high performance rather than high
availability. So it might not be that suitable as a HA solution.

Have you considered trying Gluster instead?