[ale] VMWare ESX shared disk?

[timothy at meanor.net]

I don't believe ESX provides that exact functionality.  It does allow you to set up shared storage amongst the VMs.  In other words, create a virtual disk image on the ESX host, and allow all the VMs to see it.  However, if all the VMs are going to have access to it simultaneously, it'll have to be formatted with a cluster filesystem (e.g. GFS, ocfs, etc).  

-Tim

>>On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Ashley Wilson
>><awilson at smartfurniture.com> wrote:
>>> I would be disinclined to set up file sharing on the ESX host os.  I 
>>recommend setting
>>> up a VM with NFS sharing, which ESX has a client built in for.  That way 
>>you can
>>> throttle the NFS server so if it starts acting crazy, it won't pig out on 
>>all of your
>>> resources.
>>
>>Well, this is for a bunch of web servers.  Basically a new VM is
>>created as capacity increases.  Each VM will read (not never write)
>>files from the share.  So, if the share is busy, it's an overall
>>traffic problem.  NFS is just not going to be allowed on these
>>webservers. ;-)
>>
>>-Jim P.
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