ocfs2 shared virtual disk
Hey,
We're in process of building a 2 node HA cluster, (VM2 and VM3) in a VM 2.2.1 environment. We have a mix of EMC Clariion Fiber Channel, SATA and Solid State Drives in our storage array. We've successfully presented the storage to the two VM servers. The heartbeat is running, both VM servers can see the storage.
We've created individual repositories for each Guest. We've built a guest from the OEL 5 64-bit template. The guest is running fine.
We've imported all of the remaining LUN's as Shared Virtual Disks. We've shared the virtual disk with the guest and the guest can see the disk.
However, when we try to mount the shared disk at the guest level we're getting the following issue.
[root@olvmg1 ~]# mount /dev/xvdb1 /u01
mount.ocfs2: Unable to access cluster service while trying initialize cluster
Does the guest need to be part of the VM Server Cluster in order to use the shared storage?
Can the guest run as a single node cluster?
Can I replace the ocfs2 file system with an ext3 local file system after it's been shared?
Since this LUN is really intended for use by a single guest, is there another way to present the storage in an HA environment?
Thanks in advance.