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From: Dean Kamali <dean.kamali@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 15:26:05 -0400
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I guess I could be wrong if I assume that your SAN doesn't support NFS, so
I suggest you to provision new lun, and export the volume via NFSv3

What type of fcSAN are you using? Dell? HP?


On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Musayev, Ilya <imusayev@webmd.net> wrote:

> Presently, secondary datastore is only supported as NFS (and not VMFS) -
> primary can be VMFS.
>
> You can use the remaining space on secondary datastore, but you will need
> to present the VMFS space as NFS - which in simplest terms mean install a
> linux instance on that datastore, allocate desired amount of space and make
> it the NFS server.
>
> If this is proof-of-concept type of work, then I would use the same VM as
> CloudStack Management as well NFS - all on one type of setup.
>
> Regards
> ilya
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chitra Manjunath [mailto:Chitra_Manjunath@infosys.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 12:39 AM
> > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
> > Subject: Storage
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have a fcsan lun have been used by an exist  VMware vSphere 5.1
> platform
> > as a datastore, and there are lots of available space in this datastore,
> so I
> > want to use these space and make it as secondary storage.
> >
> > Will the Cloudstack permit to use an existing space on the Vmware
> > datacenter for storage if yes, How to give the size for the secondary
> storage
> > or it will take the default free space?
> >
> > Using local storage for primary storage.
> >
> > Please suggest on this
> > It's very urgent.
> >
> > Thanks & Regards
> > Chitra.M
> >
> >
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