All I'll say is that some peoples VM guests have far greater I/O capability 
than other peoples physical machines... 

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> From: "James K. Prater" <[email protected]>
> To: "[email protected]"
> <[email protected]>, "[email protected]"
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 11:49:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD on virtual machine

> I continue to see people run DRDB clusters as VM guests. I personally
> don't get this. The only reason to do this is as a proof of concept
> and not for production. I run a DRDB cluster as a source of data
> storage system for a virtualization environment. It is based on
> physical machines for maximum performance. Depending on the I/O
> requirements of the DRBD system and it's applications running
> underneath it could make it very difficult for the virtualization
> hosts to supply the necessary I/O capability to support the required
> load.

> James

> From : Antonio Fernández Pérez
> [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent : Tuesday, February 17, 2015 08:55 AM
> To : [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject : [DRBD-user] DRBD on virtual machine

> ​​Hi list:

> I need your help ... I have to migrate two physical servers with
> DRBD+Pacemaker+Corosync to virtual machines. On the new set of
> virtual machines I will can manage more hardware resources but, do
> you have any reason advise against using DRBD on virtual machines?

> I hope your answers.

> Thanks in advance.

> Regards,

> Antonio.​
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