[14:01] <theShirbiny> Hello everyone \o/
[14:35] <elacheche> Helloo! :)
[18:10] <elacheche> theShirbiny: This seems a dump question, but I like getting real feedbacks on my "critical" questions instead of reading tutos.. I'm running out of space on some production VMs.. I thought that I can use NFS or SSHFS to mount a remote disk and migrate my data in there.. Do you have recommendations? Is  there any clustering tips (so when a remote disk isn't rechable I can still have my data r/w)
[18:11] <elacheche> I know, dump and not well formated question, but It's just something that I was thinking about and thought I should ask before living the office
[18:21] <theShirbiny> I haven't used anything like this in production, but if I were you I would suggest using something like amazon's elastic filesystem, it has redundancy built in
[18:22] <theShirbiny> If you can't do that, the best you can do in that case would be making a HA cluster
[18:22] <theShirbiny> That means RAID + ISCSI/NTFS + network teaming/bounding
[18:23] <theShirbiny> and something like glusterfs
[18:24] <theShirbiny> you can cache some files for a while but you will suffer read/write inconsistency ofc
[18:25] <theShirbiny> other option might be amazon gateway storage, in short you upload everything to s3 then cache the most frequently accessed files locally
[18:29] <theShirbiny> wait, why can't you just add more storage to the host and resize the vms?
[20:19] <elacheche> thx for the propositions theShirbiny.. I won't put down the VM to add some space because it's on prodution the product evoluated faster than my plans to cluster the app (clustering JAVA webapps ca be a nightmare)
[20:26] <theShirbiny> elacheche, o.O you don't have to put them down, you can just add more disk to the storage pool then attach them to the vms
[20:26] <theShirbiny> What's the virtualization environment? kvm?
[20:27] <elacheche> kvm using proxmox
[20:27] <theShirbiny> I haven't used proxmox, but that can be done with normal libvirt
[20:28] <theShirbiny> try it yourself you can attach/detach block devices while running
[20:30] <elacheche> Emm.. In my other libvirt server (testing) I used to shutdown the vm then cat a 10gb file to the disk file to add space to it.. Never knew about that feature.. I'll investigate that and try it (I have a spare "production" vm that I an test with) thx theShirbiny :)
[20:31] <theShirbiny> yw :), let me know what you will do
[20:59] <elacheche> I'll work on that by monday, now it's weekend :D You work tomorrow, I don't :p