Sure. With virtualisation by KVM. (although not sure about the windows and mac) Maybe VirtualBox?<div><br></div><div>I'm currently designing a cloud computing platform that uses NFS for the worker virtual machines (databases and webservers etc) and the local storage can be exported using gluster or whatever.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Say if you have 5 machines. Each machine has a RAID volume. You can use LVM to carve up this volume so that one VM can use half of it for Gluster and another VM could use the other half of it for hadoop.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You can also do the same with individual disks, this disk is for this VM and this disk is for that vm..</div><div><br></div><div>Here is a command I use on my centos 6.3 machines to create a VM with three disks. Each disk is an LVM logical volume. path=/dev/sdb is just as valid however.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Took me about a month to properly get my head around KVM.</div><div><br></div><div>virt-install </div><div>--connect qemu:///system -n cheese36 -r 11264 </div><div>--vcpus=4 </div><div>--disk path=/dev/vg0/pcheese36,device=disk,bus=virtio </div>
<div>--disk path=/dev/vg0/cheese36,device=disk,bus=virtio </div><div>--disk path=/dev/vg1/cheese36,device=disk,bus=virtio </div><div>--vnc </div><div>--noautoconsole </div><div>--os-type linux </div><div>--accelerate </div>
<div>--network=bridge:br0,mac=00:00:00:00:24:00,model=virtio </div><div>--pxe </div><div>--hvm<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/11/27 Jonathan Aquilina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eagles051387@gmail.com" target="_blank">eagles051387@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Sadly I have no experience in a cluster environment :( I do have my old laptop and hopefully have a 2nd one soon. Is it possible to have a mixed cluster with gluster or hadoop or any other clustering technology which is a hetrogenous cluster in terms of linux machines and mac machines and if someone wants windows machines?</div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Andrew Holway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.holway@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.holway@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
not as efficient as gluster I would venture.<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/11/27 Jonathan Aquilina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eagles051387@gmail.com" target="_blank">eagles051387@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Hey guys I was looking at the hadoop page and it got me wondering. is it possible to cluster together storage servers? If so how efficient would a cluster of them be?<span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br>Jonathan Aquilina<br>
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