Comments on: Melio FS, Hyper-V, and VMware ESX http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/06/16/melio-fs-hyper-v-and-vmware-esx/ The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:13:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Sanbolic Now Providing Shared LUN Access for Hyper-V Guests - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/06/16/melio-fs-hyper-v-and-vmware-esx/comment-page-1/#comment-41255 Sanbolic Now Providing Shared LUN Access for Hyper-V Guests - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:48:55 +0000 http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/06/16/melio-fs-hyper-v-and-vmware-esx/#comment-41255 [...] whose Melio FS product I first mentioned back in June, has today announced that they now support the use of Melio FS with Hyper-V guest virtual machines. [...] [...] whose Melio FS product I first mentioned back in June, has today announced that they now support the use of Melio FS with Hyper-V guest virtual machines. [...]

]]> By: CP http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/06/16/melio-fs-hyper-v-and-vmware-esx/comment-page-1/#comment-39578 CP Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:47:50 +0000 http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/06/16/melio-fs-hyper-v-and-vmware-esx/#comment-39578 Unfortunately one license of the standard version of Melio FS costs $3,000.00 - I can buy VMWare Infrastructure Foundation for less than that. Microsoft needs to come with their own solution for this - my only motivation for going with Hyper-V is that it is free with my Windows Licenses. Why would I want to pay more for a clustered file system that costs more than VMWare itself? Unfortunately one license of the standard version of Melio FS costs $3,000.00 – I can buy VMWare Infrastructure Foundation for less than that.

Microsoft needs to come with their own solution for this – my only motivation for going with Hyper-V is that it is free with my Windows Licenses. Why would I want to pay more for a clustered file system that costs more than VMWare itself?

]]> By: Todd Muirhead http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/06/16/melio-fs-hyper-v-and-vmware-esx/comment-page-1/#comment-39446 Todd Muirhead Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:03:09 +0000 http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/06/16/melio-fs-hyper-v-and-vmware-esx/#comment-39446 Interesting post about the cluster filesystem option for Hyper-V. I think that it is great that there will be an option for Hyper-V customers, but it seems that the additional cost is the downside.... Todd Interesting post about the cluster filesystem option for Hyper-V. I think that it is great that there will be an option for Hyper-V customers, but it seems that the additional cost is the downside….

Todd

]]> By: Eva http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/06/16/melio-fs-hyper-v-and-vmware-esx/comment-page-1/#comment-39437 Eva Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:55:37 +0000 http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/06/16/melio-fs-hyper-v-and-vmware-esx/#comment-39437 thank you for clarifying! Eva thank you for clarifying! Eva

]]> By: Jon http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/06/16/melio-fs-hyper-v-and-vmware-esx/comment-page-1/#comment-39435 Jon Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:09:07 +0000 http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/06/16/melio-fs-hyper-v-and-vmware-esx/#comment-39435 We use, for nearly two years now, OCFS2 as webserver VMs shared filesystem without a problem.(two or more VMs can write at the same time in the OCFS2 volume, which contains html, jsp, jar...etc...) The VMs vmdks reside in LUNs formated with VMFS by the ESX hosts, but three of these VMs(web servers) are part of a OCFS cluster and have a RDM which is formated in OCFS2. With this solution you have a flexible, high avalibility and LOAD BALANCED solution (we use a HW load balancer) We have too, for tests purpouses, three VMs with a shared disk formated in OCFS2 in the same ESX host (Edit Settings> SCSI Controller> SCSI Bus Sharing > Physical or Virtual). For tests we don't have a SAN... ;-) One can do this with GFS, OCFS2 in linux, and as you tell us with Melio FS in windows We use, for nearly two years now, OCFS2 as webserver VMs shared filesystem without a problem.(two or more VMs can write at the same time in the OCFS2 volume, which contains html, jsp, jar…etc…)

The VMs vmdks reside in LUNs formated with VMFS by the ESX hosts, but three of these VMs(web servers) are part of a OCFS cluster and have a RDM which is formated in OCFS2.
With this solution you have a flexible, high avalibility and LOAD BALANCED solution (we use a HW load balancer)

We have too, for tests purpouses, three VMs with a shared disk formated in OCFS2 in the same ESX host (Edit Settings> SCSI Controller> SCSI Bus Sharing > Physical or Virtual). For tests we don’t have a SAN… ;-)

One can do this with GFS, OCFS2 in linux, and as you tell us with Melio FS in windows

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