On July 2, 2017 7:36:02 PM GMT+02:00, "taii...@gmx.com" <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: >On 07/02/2017 02:51 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> On July 1, 2017 11:23:06 PM GMT+02:00, "taii...@gmx.com" ><taii...@gmx.com> wrote: >>> I am wondering if anyone has tried this, apparently several LSI >>> controllers support portioning out drives to VF's so the guest sees >a >>> controller with those drives attached to it. >>> >>> What was your experience like? and what controllers did you use? >>> >>> >>> - Thanks >> I am wondering when I would want this? >So you only need one HBA/RAID card per system if you want more than one > >VM with quality performance. >It'll always be faster than an emulated disk.
Never noticed any performance issues. Using Xen and raw disk format to the VMs. >> Either the VM needs a fraction of a single disk. Or it needs multiple >disks. >> >> For the latter case, I prefer to pass an entire HBA. >Which one do you have and does yours support FLR? Using a Supermicro card based on a LSI3008 chipset and dual expander backplane. I can always add a second HBA of I need more bandwidth. What is FLR? Googling that gives me a lot of non IT related results. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
