Yep, it’s here
It’s in beta, so use at your own risk.
The obvious idea is that if an ESX host fails, this driver will allow you to pull machines out of it’s datastores.
Cheers,
Leo
Yep, it’s here
It’s in beta, so use at your own risk.
The obvious idea is that if an ESX host fails, this driver will allow you to pull machines out of it’s datastores.
Cheers,
Leo
[...] It looks like my post discussing a universal cluster file system may have been prescient. Shared with me first via Twitter, it appears that a company has already started building an open source VMFS driver. It was also covered here and here. [...]
NTFS was that way for many many years. For VMFS, we really need the ability to format and write to it from within LINUX. This lets you can prep a disk drive with VMFS and copy over your VMDKs while still booted in LINUX, then reboot into ESX and continue on. Short of this, the VMDKs have to be removed to another machine and brought back over the network once the LINUX box boots into ESXi, which can be quite expensive if the LINUX box is not local.
[...] an update to this post, the vmfs-tools project has been operating for a while and, unlike the previous driver – [...]