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currently I have 2 servers with Fault Tolerance working with another server with openfiler as a iSCSI server (looks like without that Fault Tolerance does not work). I would like to remove that server and put the openfiler distribution as another Fault Tolerance protected machine. Is this possible? This way i could save one server and also have faster HD access.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Whilst openfiler will work inside a VM perfectly well, and work as an FT VM I think you've got a bit of a dependancy loop there - where is the .vmdk for the FT Openfiler VM going to live? if it's FT it needs to be somewhere central - meaning another Openfiler or similar, thus negating the benefit right?

Let me know if I've misunderstood the situation.

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  • I'm really not sure why the files need to be central. Aren't they duplicated as the whole virtual machine with FT? Commented Jun 14, 2010 at 8:38
  • no, no they're not, they're specifically held centrally so that all that's transmitted over the network is the memory/CPU/IO/registers - otherwise it would flood even a 10Gbps link. Commented Jun 14, 2010 at 8:58
  • Oh crap :( Then i would not be able to implement that solution ... well, thanks for you help mate. Commented Jun 14, 2010 at 8:59

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