You should put your VM images in the striped disks, especially if the VMs are heavy in disk IO.
Since you have 3 disks, why not go for RAID 5 to get striping accross the three disks? --- mike t. ----- Original Message ---- > From: Miguel Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List > <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 14:28:52 > Subject: [plug] Home Workstation RAID Setup Ideas? > > Hi, > I'm very impressed with kvm, running Windows XP, other Linuxen, and Solaris. > But, with a single disk, I find myself short on disk I/O and seek time. > > I'm thinking of getting 2 more disks and: > 1. On the first 2 disks, RAID 0 for swap, /tmp and maybe the base OS > since reinstalling this is no big deal. > 2. On the 3rd disk, /home which will contain the virtual machine image files. > > What do you think? > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
