Thanks for the reply Matt. What are you seeing as the common platform for these shared storage setups?
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Mathias Mullins < mathias.mull...@citrix.com> wrote: > Hey Kirk, > > Majority of our customers are using shared storage. It's actually a very > low percentage that are using Local storage because it basically negates > all high Availability and eliminates a lot of the useful features in > CloudStack. > > Local storage is usually what I refer to as "Use it and Forget it" because > if you lose the system you can forget getting the VM back. part of the > risk, but the cheaper cost is the obvious reward. most of the local storage > environments I have seen are small cluster, small workload environments > that can afford to back those environments up regularly. > > The large scale 1,000's of VMs you are about 97% likely IMO going to see > shared storage. > > Thank you, > Matt > > On Mar 14, 2013, at 11:28 AM, "Kirk Jantzer" <kirk.jant...@gmail.com > <mailto:kirk.jant...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > For my testing, because of available resources, I chose local storage. > However, shared storage (like GlusterFS or the like) is appealing. What are > you using? Why did you chose what you're using? How many instances are you > running? etc. > Thanks!! > -- Regards, Kirk Jantzer c: (678) 561-5475
