<html><head></head><body lang="en-GB" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yup I use a drbd pacemaker dual stack LMV with NFS.</div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Make sure you use deadline elevator and not noop or else you may see vmware latency issues killing your datastore connections.</div> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div> <div style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.</div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Gandalf Corvotempesta</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, 6 July 2016 16:28</div><div><b>To: </b>drbd-user@lists.linbit.com</div><div><b>Subject: </b>[DRBD-user] nfs for VMs hosting</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style=""><p dir="ltr">Anyone using drbd to export an high available volume with nfs for virtual machine hosting?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Currently i have 2 or 3 supermicro servers with 12 SAS 15k disks each.<br>
I would like to use them as nfs server where store VM images</p>
<p dir="ltr">Any suggestions?<br>
Should i create a big raid10 with 12 disks? Multiple raid1 merged with lvm?<br>
A raid6?</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm open to suggestions. I need the maximum availability and data protection.</p>
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