Add an existing directory in another pool to VM

Apprisco

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I have a pool called RAW80TB and App4TB, where the VM is running on App4TB.
I have bulk storage files in RAW80TB that i'd like to share to the VM in a "direct" manner, AKA not going through the network or some crap.
Is this possible?
 

Apprisco

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After more research it seems that Scale simply lacks virtio-fs functionality which every other hypervisor has.
This is incredibly annoying. The whole point of having a VM on Scale for me was to directly access the files w/o having to go through the network limitations of 10gbps.
 

danb35

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w/o having to go through the network limitations of 10gbps.
What makes you think this would happen? Mounting a network share in the VM doesn't mean that data goes out on the wire (to where?) and then comes back over the wire into your VM; all the traffic is over a virtual adapter between the host and the VM. Any number of other bottlenecks may apply, but wire speed on your network connection won't be one of them.
 

Apprisco

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That's fair, my bad. I guess i'm just more concerned with the security.
Anyways, this still does suck. I have made a bridge network and have the web gui running again.
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However, even though I attached the bridge to all my VM nics, none of them have network access at all.
They don't even get an IP.
I am quite confused...
 

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Apprisco

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The problem is that the VMs are no longer functioning- as in accessible from the network. And I have zero idea why.
 

Apprisco

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What makes you think this would happen? Mounting a network share in the VM doesn't mean that data goes out on the wire (to where?) and then comes back over the wire into your VM; all the traffic is over a virtual adapter between the host and the VM. Any number of other bottlenecks may apply, but wire speed on your network connection won't be one of them.
Update:
It is very clearly bound by the network speed... unsure what's going on with that. I should have well over 30gbps sequential reads.
 
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