It seems vmware needs disk locking switched off. Funny that ;-) To create a disk: vmware-vdiskmanager –a lsi-logic –c –s 10GB –t 2 clusterdisk1.vmdk Add the disk to your nsd server #1. Save config. Edit .vmx file for server. Add the line: disk.locking = “false” Boot server. Do this for your other quorum-managers. Disk type in nsddevices is ‘generic’. Badda bing. One virtual test cluster. Thanks all. From: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org] On Behalf Of Scott Fadden Sent: 06 August 2012 18:31 To: gpfsug main discussion list Cc: gpfsug main discussion list; gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS & VMware Workstation Two things to looks for: 1. Make sure the virtual LUNS do not do any server caching of data. 2. Use nsddevices file (did you try this?) Scott Fadden GPFS Technical Marketing Desk: (503) 578-5630 Cell: (503) 880-5833 sfadden at us.ibm.com http://www.ibm.com/systems/gpfs From: Jez Tucker <Jez.Tucker at rushes.co.uk> To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org>, Date: 08/06/2012 10:25 AM Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS & VMware Workstation Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org ________________________________ Has anyone managed to set this up? (Completely unsupported) What sort of vmware disks did you use? I created lsilogic vmdks and could actually create do mmcrnsd. That said, mmcrfs fails as it can’t find the disks. --- Jez Tucker Senior Sysadmin Rushes GPFSUG Chairman (chair at gpfsug.org) _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20120806/09559881/attachment.html>