Gluster users - Dec 2009 - Gluster 3.0 with VMware ESX 4

Dear All,

I'm evaluating Gluster 3.0 with VMware ESX 4.
I have one physical server (with 1 SATA HD) installed with Gluster.
It's connected on a Gbit Switch with the port VMKernel of VMware. A single
switch only for this storage.
I create the volume and on Gluster everything works perfect. The logs are clear
with the startup. Also do a reboot.

I connect the NFS volume with the GUI of VMware. Works perfect.
I browse the empty store from the GUI and works. I create a directory and it
works.
I try to browse the directory and the GUI hags... it take minutes for displaying
the empty folder.

I created a new VM and placed on this Store. Works great
As soon as the machine start and start allocating space, it hang and is
unresponsive.

I connect with SSH to the console of my VMware server.
I try to copy one virtual machine image file from another store, to the store
assigned to Gluster.
It hangs, take minutes to browse and hang on copying.
No error on the Gluster log

Any ideas?

To have VMware work also with VMotion I have to setup the NFS with the GUI, I
can mount normal on the file system.

Thanks for the Help.
Nicola

Nicola Moresi
http://www.moresi.com

Hi Nicola,

    Are you using NFS export on windows machines?.

Regards
--
Harshavardhana
Gluster - http://www.gluster.com


On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Nicola Moresi <nicola at moresi.com>
wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I'm evaluating Gluster 3.0 with VMware ESX 4.
> I have one physical server (with 1 SATA HD) installed with Gluster.
> It's connected on a Gbit Switch with the port VMKernel of VMware. A
single
> switch only for this storage.
> I create the volume and on Gluster everything works perfect. The logs are
> clear with the startup. Also do a reboot.
>
> I connect the NFS volume with the GUI of VMware. Works perfect.
> I browse the empty store from the GUI and works. I create a directory and
> it works.
> I try to browse the directory and the GUI hags... it take minutes for
> displaying the empty folder.
>
> I created a new VM and placed on this Store. Works great
> As soon as the machine start and start allocating space, it hang and is
> unresponsive.
>
> I connect with SSH to the console of my VMware server.
> I try to copy one virtual machine image file from another store, to the
> store assigned to Gluster.
> It hangs, take minutes to browse and hang on copying.
> No error on the Gluster log
>
> Any ideas?
>
> To have VMware work also with VMotion I have to setup the NFS with the GUI,
> I can mount normal on the file system.
>
> Thanks for the Help.
> Nicola
>
> Nicola Moresi
> http://www.moresi.com
>
>
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