12-28-2018
Advice on allocating SAN storage to a virtual database server on VMware
I am relatively new to Linux and we are getting ready to convert our current oracle database servers from the AIX platform to RHEL7 servers on VMWare. I would appreciate any advice on how best to allocate storage to these machines. I plan on using LVM to maintain the disks/filesystems but am unsure on how to initially assign the SAN storage to ensure the best performance possible.
In our current AIX environment we have separate disks/volume groups for the different types of data being stored. i.e. database files in a different volume group than O/S data, etc. On the SAN side the disks are on different storage devices as well so we can avoid any type of bottlenecks.
When creating a VM would I take this same approach?
Any advice on this would be appreciated.
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ocf_heartbeat_vmware
OCF_HEARTBEAT_VMWARE(7) OCF resource agents OCF_HEARTBEAT_VMWARE(7)
NAME
ocf_heartbeat_vmware - Manages VMWare Server 2.0 virtual machines
SYNOPSIS
vmware [start | stop | monitor | meta-data]
DESCRIPTION
OCF compliant script to control vmware server 2.0 virtual machines.
SUPPORTED PARAMETERS
vmxpath
VMX configuration file path (required, string, no default)
vimshbin
vmware-vim-cmd executable path (optional, string, default /usr/bin/vmware-vim-cmd)
SUPPORTED ACTIONS
This resource agent supports the following actions (operations):
start
Starts the resource. Suggested minimum timeout: 600.
stop
Stops the resource. Suggested minimum timeout: 600.
monitor
Performs a detailed status check. Suggested minimum timeout: 30. Suggested interval: 300.
meta-data
Retrieves resource agent metadata (internal use only). Suggested minimum timeout: 5.
EXAMPLE
The following is an example configuration for a vmware resource using the crm(8) shell:
primitive example_vmware ocf:heartbeat:vmware
params
vmxpath=string
op monitor timeout="30" interval="300" depth="0"
SEE ALSO
http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/vmware_(resource_agent)
AUTHOR
Linux-HA contributors (see the resource agent source for information about individual authors)
resource-agents 1.0.3 07/05/2010 OCF_HEARTBEAT_VMWARE(7)