[lxc-users] LXD - Small Production Deployment - Storage

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

On 2017-03-29 22:13, Gabriel Marais wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> If this is the incorrect platform for this post, please point me in
> the right direction.
> 
> We are in the process of deploying a small production environment with
> the following equipment:-
> 
> 2 x Dell R430 servers each with 128GB Ram and 3 x 600GB SAS 10k drives
> 1 x Dell PowerVault MD3400 with
> 	3 x 600GB 15k SAS Drives
> 	3 x 6TB 7.2k Nearline SAS drives
> 
> The PowerVault is cabled directly to the Host Servers via Direct
> Attached Storage, redundantly.
> 
> 
> We would like to run a mixture of KVM and LXD containers on both Host 
> Servers.
> 
> The big question is, how do we implement the PowerVault (and to a
> certain extent the storage on the Host Servers themselves) to be most
> beneficial in this mixed environment.
> 
> I have a few ideas on what I could do, but since I don't have much
> experience with shared storage, I am probably just picking straws and
> would like to hear from others that probably has more experience than
> me.

NFS for LXD and iSCSI for KVM?

Just don't use NFS clients using NFS server on the same machine (same 
kernel), as this will break (hangs).


Tomasz Chmielewski
https://lxadm.com