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Re: [Xen-users] Diskless xen

To: "Denis J. Cirulis" <denis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Diskless xen
From: "Javier Guerra" <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:05:29 -0500
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On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Denis J. Cirulis <denis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to implement a diskless xen hypervisor. The way I suppose it will work 
> is xen booted over pxe and
> getting iscsi san storage to store vm images.
>
> Is solution like that usable ?

it certainly is.  i believe somebody here did that, but using AoE
instead of iSCSI....

the result is extremely neat, splitting your hardware needs in two
types of boxes: storage boxes, and processor/RAM boxes.  adding extra
storage or processing power means just plugging it in and adding it to
the respective tables. no more software installing!

-- 
Javier

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