On 01/28/2011 02:04 PM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > On 01/28/2011 11:54 AM, carlopmart wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I need to install a virtual machine acting as a virtual storage server >> under CentOS 5.x (using kvm, xen, virtualbox or vmware). This virtual >> storage machine needs to server storage to another ESXi server and at >> the same time to the host where is installed. > I ask just for my own education : > Why would you want to have a "Virtual" storage? > what are the benefits? why not having the host serving what you need > (either nfs or samba) to the virtual machines? > > Thanks! > Adrian > I need to install four machines using RHCS (two different clusters with two nodes on each one) and, only in this case, I would like to use kvm instead other virtualization products (AFAIK, kvm doesn't provides shared disk for virtual guests). At the same time, I need to install virtual machines onto ESXi server using iSCSI boot because I don't have enough disk space on this server (80GB). If I use CentOS 5.x host to serve disks for virtual machines, I don't have sufficient RAM to run virtual guests onto it because this host has 5GB of RAM only. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com