On Dec 4, 2007 6:28 AM, Jc Polanycia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been following this thread and have a question. Why are you > running > your VMWare instances on raw partitions versus image files on a filesystem? > We use VMWare a bit over here and found that using image files gives us > more flexibility in with our VMs(portable, easily duplicatable). > Also, we use LVM on top of md RAID1 volumes(using libata) here and have > found them to be quite stable and have good performance. Plus you then > also get the flexibility to resize partitions as needed (with some some > restrictions, of course).
Off topic, as I seldom partition anything (unpartitioned drives perform best), but, you're setting yourself up for disaster using LVM (any corruption to the LVM layer is not recoverable... you'll loose everything... been there done that), and the performance is poor, and MD RAID5/6 devices can be grown (add more disks). Chris > > -jc > > > -- > ******************************** > J.C. Polanycia > Information Technology Services > University of Colorado > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
