Multiple servers and NFS

[Nathan Schultheiss]

Hallo Patrick,

I've a Dell Equallogic, I make one "volume" with 4 To capacity.
This volume have a iscsi key, I had this key to VMWare for link VMware with this "volume".

After on VMware I format this volume with the VMFS5 format, VMware add it "Datastore2".

I make a first VM (storage VM) with 2 Hard Drive:
First Hardrive (located in Datastore1) with 20Go capacity, I setup on it the ubuntu system.
Second Hardrive (located in Datastore2) with 4To capacity, That's my slave hard drive formated in ReiserFS and mounted has /home/vmail
I setup nfs-server service with this options in my "export" file (rw,no_subtree_check,all_squash,anonuid=1000,anongid=1000,async), the /home/vmail it's the export point.

I setup now 2 new VM (Dovecot Backend) with just one local Hard Drive (20Go).
After the setup, I install nfs-client and mount /home/vmail to my "storage VMAIL".

Dovecot would store mail in /home/vmail/user
I've just 1 domain, it's why I store direct in user directore (ex: /home/vmail/nathan.schultheiss ).

The storage VM it's here because I can't mount the ISCSI session on the 2 Backend server.
I mount this "volume" first on VMWare because it's more easy for manage it and setup it on a Virtual Server (my storage server in this case).

It's not impossible that I make a total wrong archi...
But I've think, easy, I mount the ISCSI session on my 2 backend in /home/vmail, that work for 1 but not for the second, and I receive many error.
I think Equallogic don't like that 2 Virtual Server wrote on the same time to the same ISCSI session.

Freundliche Grüße aus Frankreich,
Nathan


----- Mail original -----
De: "Patrick Westenberg" <pw at wk-serv.de>
À: dovecot at dovecot.org
Envoyé: Jeudi 24 Juillet 2014 19:56:26
Objet: Re: Multiple servers and NFS

Nathan Schultheiss schrieb:

> My config:
>
> Dell Equallogic
> |-> VMWare ESXI (iscsi mount in VMware with VMWare VMFS 5 format 4To)
> |--> Mounted as slave disk on a VM Ubuntu and exported with this options "(rw,no_subtree_check,all_squash,anonuid=1000,anongid=1000,async)" and formated as ReiserFS (I've read it's the best for many small files).
> |---> My 2 Dovecot Backend mount the NFS (fstab) to my previous VM with this options "nfs  defaults  0  0"
> |----> Mail it's stored in MailDir format "mail_location = maildir:%h"

I don't understand your setup esp. that your backend servers mount
something from the "previous VM"?

Patrick