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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I&#8217;ve setup a Gluster environment using CentOS 6.2 and GlusterFS 3.3 beta4 and the new type of volume striped &#43; replicated. My go is to use it to run Virtual Machines (.vmdk files).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Volume is created fine and the ESXi server mountw the Datastore using Gluster &nbsp;built-in NFS, however &nbsp;when trying to use the Datastore or even read, it hangs.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Looking at the Gluster NFS logs I see: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;">&#8220;[socket.c:195:__socket_rwv] 0-socket.nfs-server: readv failed (Connection reset by peer)&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In order to get the rpm files installed I had first to install these two because of the some libraries: &#8220;<span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;">compat-readline5-5.2-17.1.el6.x86_64&#8221;.rpm</span> and &#8220;<span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;">openssl098e-0.9.8e-17.el6.centos.x86_64.rpm&#8221;.</span>Not
 sure if it has anything to do with that.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone ever used Gluster as a backend storage for ESXi ? Does it actually work ?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
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