[TriLUG] Disk subsystem recommendations

[Clay Stuckey]

vmware released a free version of what?


On Nov 25, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Jason Watts wrote:

> Clay,
>
> Thats quite a diffenret idea on your propposed settup and has some  
> merrit to
> consider. My initial knee jerk is to say bad idea, your splitting your
> avaialable resourses.  one thing to consider when deciding.  How  
> much IO do
> your VM's use individually?  if one never uses more than 20% of the  
> IO of
> your hard drive, you are wasting resouses that the other VM could use.
>
> Something to look into which I will be doing soon as well.  VMWare  
> released
> a free version which allows you to divy up your resources per VM  
> with no
> overlap.
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Ron Kelley <rkelleyrtp at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> x2 on the SSDs.  $489/ea for the Intel 160GB G2 SSDs  
>> (zipzoomfly.com).
>> Put a pair in RAID-0 for $1K.  Very fast and should last a long time.
>>
>> -Ron
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 25, 2009, at 4:31 PM, Joseph Tate wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think you want the overhead of LVM.  I'd stick with straight
>> partitions.
>>>
>>> Why not go solid state disks?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:02 PM, btncix btncix <btncix at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> I don't know much about VMWare nor much about virtualization, but  
>>>> if
>> your
>>>> main concern is performance, I would suggest you keep RAID-0 and  
>>>> create
>>>> separate partitions. If you're worried about flexibility with  
>>>> hard drive
>>>> partitions, look into LVM for your root partitions and logical
>> partitions
>>>> for your boot partitions. Of course, this more difficult to setup  
>>>> than
>> what
>>>> you were thinking about, but it let's you keep RAID-0 and still  
>>>> create
>> your
>>>> VMs with direct physical access to hard drive.
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>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Ron
>> rkelleyrtp at gmail.com
>>
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