[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS & VMware Workstation

[Jez Tucker]

It seems vmware needs disk locking switched off.  Funny that ;-)

To create a disk:

vmware-vdiskmanager –a lsi-logic –c –s 10GB –t 2 clusterdisk1.vmdk

Add the disk to your nsd server #1.  Save config.

Edit .vmx file for server.  Add the line: disk.locking = “false”

Boot server.
Do this for your other quorum-managers.

Disk type in nsddevices is ‘generic’.

Badda bing.  One virtual test cluster.

Thanks all.


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Two things to looks for:
        1. Make sure the virtual LUNS do not do any server caching of data.
        2. Use nsddevices file (did you try this?)

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Has anyone managed to set this up?  (Completely unsupported)

What sort of vmware disks did you use?

I created lsilogic vmdks and could actually create do mmcrnsd.
That said, mmcrfs fails as it can’t find the disks.


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