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Re: [Xen-users] Best way to store domU's. NFS? NBD?

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Best way to store domU's. NFS? NBD?
From: Markus Hochholdinger <Markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:36:30 +0100
Cc: Jeff Sturm <jeff.sturm@xxxxxxxxxx>, Wiebe Cazemier <halfgaar@xxxxxxx>
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Hello,

Am 24.03.2010 um 19:34 Uhr schrieb Jeff Sturm <jeff.sturm@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wiebe Cazemier
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> > Subject: [Xen-users] Best way to store domU's. NFS? NBD?
[..]
> iSCSI is nearly ubiquitous among commercial SAN products these days.

and it's also possible to create a completly open source SAN with a linux 
host. Just use lvm2 with iscsi enterprise target.

I've done this and i use the storage hosts also as xen hosts. I've all the 
nice features, live migration, storage redundancy with software raid1 inside 
the domUs, backup scripts for the whole volume group, can scale from 2 to n 
hosts, ...


-- 
greetings

eMHa

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