Re: [Xen-users] Recommended partitioning for xen host

[Geoff Kirk <geoff.k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again,

I think a lot depends only sure way to know is test it. I use Xen with 
very low end hardware (PIII's 512MB ram each) i use no raid and in some 
cases everything but the root is all on one ide device. It works fine 
for what i do which is very light weight work loads really. But sure if 
you need the disk IO performance using more than one disk or raid is 
very useful. iSCSI seems to be of interest in larger scale deployments.
Geoff.

john maclean wrote:
> What about using a number of disks, one for dom0 and others for the
> domUs? They would all be "fighting" I/O on the same disk, right?
>
> disk one - dom0 with partitioning as suggested as above.
> disk two - lvm for domUs.
>
> On 26/11/2007, Geoff Kirk <geoff.k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > There shouldn't be anything special about partitioning for Xen just
> > plenty of space for the guests you want to run. What you have planned
> > sounds sensible enough. Usualy the main consideration is can the box
> > handle all the work of all guests it will be running. Swap might be a
> > little excessive for dom0. I usualy go with same amount of ram as i
> > allocate to dom0 using dom0_mem as i would with any physical  system.
> > 5gig for root is more than plenty to run xen.
> >
> > Geoff.
> >
> > Josh wrote:
> >     
> > > Is there a recommended partitioning for dom0?
> > >
> > > Here's what I have planned.
> > > /swap   2GB
> > > /boot   100MB (ext3)
> > > /       5GB (ext3)
> > >
> > > xenmachines  LVM volume group for the remaining diskspace
> > >
> > > dom0 will install in 5GB / and each domU will have a swap and root
> > > logical volume in "xenmachines"
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > >
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