> i'm creating an 11 physical volume vg for the datafiles of an oracle > database. i'm curious as to which would serve me better, full pack > minidisks or dedicate the volumes to the guest. one vm > "expert" recommended > dedicating the volumes to the guest, thereby bypassing any vm > overhead. at > the same time i understand that vm can do some minidisk > caching. any ideas?
You'll get better performance splitting the volumes into multiple minidisks and LVMing them together. Having more "device"s available wins big for database I/O. --d b
