[Xen-users] Re: What hardware should I be considering?

[Charles Duffy <cduffy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Peterson wrote:
> I was thinking of dual core 
> opterons, but I wasn't sure if Xen would work well on Opterons and take 
> advantage of the Dual core processor.
It does.

> Does Xen 3 still suffer from a 4GB RAM limit?
No.

> Has anyone had any experience with the newer SATA solutions versus SCSI 
> disk?  I'm thinking of a SATA RAID 5 setup to save some cash and gain 
> some needed space.
I'm using 3ware's 9000-series controllers, and they work for me, but I'm 
thinking of trying some of Areca's units when I get the opportunity.
> What seems to work better, running from an image file or setting up each 
> host to use a partition? I like the simplicity of an image file, but an 
> lvm partition would be nice because you can resize them on the fly.
I strongly prefer using LVM devices -- better performance, and some 
things (like GFS) don't work via loopback.
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