Can VxCFS share a volume between RHEL and Solaris
Created: 08 Oct 2012 | Updated: 08 Oct 2012 | 2 comments
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Hi,
Sorry if my question is a little bit dumb, but I'm looking for a solution in order to share a volume (hosted on a SAN) between hosts running both RHEL (5) and Solaris (11).
Several people recommended lookling at VxFS and especially the VxCFS. The product sheets indicate that both RHEL and Solaris are supported platfroms, however I'm unable to determine whenever this FS can be used concurently from both OSes ?
So if you have any related information or even betters pointers to a symantec product sheet/use case, I'd really appreciate.
Thanks per advance,
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No, this is not possible as all nodes in a cluster must be the same O/S (cluster filesystem is provided using a cluster).
You can get info on SFCFS at http://www.symantec.com/cluster-file-system and you can download manuals (Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System) from https://sort.symantec.com/documents.
I can't find anything that explicity says you can't use different O/S in a single cluster, so it is more the lack that it doesn't say this which means it is not supported as note there are statements for other platfom connectivity, so for GCO the VCS admin guide says in section "Prerequisites for global clusters":
And for VVR the VVR admin guide says;
Using CDS you can share data non-concurrently by deporting diskgroup on one system and importing on another, but note Solaris Sparc and Linux Intel have different file system Endians (different byte orders) and this is to do with the architacture so you would need to use Solaris x64 and Linux on x64 (they use Little Endian) or Solaris and Linux on Sparc (they use Big Endian), otherwise you would need to use to use application-specific byte conversion utilities to interpret the data.
Mike
UK Symantec Consultant in VCS, GCO, SF, VVR, VxAT on Solaris, AIX, HP-ux, Linux & Windows
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Thank you very much for a so prompt and precise answer !
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