[TriLUG] Disk subsystem recommendations

[Jason Watts]

Ill get a link  and a name later when I have time to dig for what I remember
seeing awhile ago..

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Clay Stuckey <claystuckey at gmail.com> wrote:

> vmware released a free version of what?
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> 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:
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>>> 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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