[ale] VMWare ESX shared disk?

[Jeff Hubbs]

Yes.  In ESX, you establish "stores" and when you generate a new guest, 
you can connect a new or existing store as sda, sdb, etc.  My 
understanding of ESX rigs (I worked on one for over 3 months but didn't 
get in as much "back end" esperience as I would have liked) is that if 
you have more than one ESX server, you typically would establish a SAN 
that the ESX servers would see and that's where your stores would live. 

I'm not sure how locking works in that regime; I guess it's handled 
within ESX as opposed to the underlying Linux instance.

- Jeff

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Does anyone know if VMWare ESX provides a way of sharing a common
> directory on the host filesystem to each instance?
>
> Thx,
>
> -Jim P.
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