[ale] VMWare ESX shared disk?

[Jim Popovitch]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Jeff,

Locking, etc., via VMWare internals,  is specifically what I'm looking
for.   This would be for systems where NFS/Samba is not allowed (i.e.
it would have to be native to VMWare ESX).

Thanks.

-Jim P.