Peter Machell wrote:
On 06/06/2007, at 10:28 PM, David Guest wrote:
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Fortunately I have no need for Windows servers, and can simply enlarge
my file systems on the fly.
Bastard.
LVM needs hardware or software RAID (or both :-) .
Do you do LVM on the host or within the guests?
Either is optional. LVM on the host seems like a good idea.
If doing it on the guests, having snapshots as well as data backups
means this isn't really an issue for me. If I need to upgrade the
disk I can do so with dd, then just add the new disk to the LV and
drop the old one, right? Or it may be simpler to just clone the
virtual machine to a bigger disk then enlarge the volume.
Either sounds reasonable. My fear is if the host machine gets file
corruption all your virtual machines are potentially cactus.
My interest in this is in preserving mission critical Windows machines
and having clones on separate hardware ready to fire up when needed.
David
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