[cgl_discussion] [Fwd: [ogfs-dev]EVMS 2.0 with cluster support]

[Peter Badovinatz]

John Cherry wrote:
> 
> EVMS has been released as a clustered volume manager.  It could address
> things like cluster wide device naming and could replace the notion of
> pools in OpenGFS.  Does anybody on the cgl_discussion list have some
> bandwidth to evaluate this?

Folks, I'm sure he'll speak up for himself, but I asked Ram Pai of IBM
to join cgl_discussion.  As is obvious from the below, he has a key role
in EVMS, and was central to the clustering support for it.  I'm not sure
this specifically answer's John's request, but at least having Ram
involved should be a good thing overall.

> 
> -----Forwarded Message-----
> 
> > From: Ram Pai <linuxram at us.ibm.com>
> > To: Linux HA development list <linux-ha-dev at lists.community.tummy.com>, opengfs-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Cc: evms-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [ogfs-dev]EVMS 2.0 with cluster support
> > Date: 01 Apr 2003 17:08:26 -0800
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > EVMS 2.0 with cluster support is now available for download.
> >
> > This EVMS release supports the following cluster features.
> >
> >       1.  Creation of cluster containers using shared disks (known as
> >               diskgroup in veritas terminology).
> >
> >       2.  Failover/Failback of private cluster containers(volumes
> >               created from private containers can be accessed by only
> >               the owning node).
> >
> >       3.  Support for shared containers (volumes created from shared
> >               containers can be accessed simultaneously from all the
> >               nodes of the cluster).
> >
> >       4. Remote administration. (Ability to remotely configure local and
> >               shared storage on any node of the cluster, from any
> >               node of the cluster).
> >
> > NOTE: Currently we support the Linux-HA cluster manager(popularly known
> > as heartbeat).
> >
> > EVMS user guide is posted on the web site at
> > http://evms.sourceforge.net/users_guide/
> >
> > The software is available at http://www.sf.net/projects/evms
> >
> > Any feedback is appreciated.  Our future EVMS clustering directions will
> > be based on valuable feedback that we get from the community.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Ram Pai
> > linuxram at us.ibm.com
> > 503-5783752
> > EVMS: http://www.sf.net/projects/evms

Peter
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