On Monday 14 April 2008 22:55:37 Miguel Paraz wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Michael Tinsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You should put your VM images in the striped disks, especially if the VMs > > are heavy in disk IO. > > They aren't that heavy yet. Main requirement is to separate the host's > I/O from the guests', so it's alright (for now).
in that case, having separate VMs (or sets of VMs) on separate drives would be sufficient. e.g., host on /dev/sda1, one set of VMs on /dev/sdb1 and another set on /dev/sdc1 and you try to figure out which VMs you will generally run together (have them on different drives) and which you will usually not run together (have them on the same drive). > > Since you have 3 disks, why not go for RAID 5 to get striping accross > > the three disks? > > I don't need reliability on my home desktop (again, for now) you're going to, when one drive fails :-). and you might as well go with RAID-5 (if you have to stay with 3 drives) or RAID-10 (if you can add another drive). if you really can't go with 4 drives and you don't want to go with RAID-5, then have one drive be the /, and have your VMs on a RAID-0 drive in /home (or elsewhere, i put mine in /extra or /home/vmware or similar). Then, do rdiff-backup backups every day from the RAID-0 to your / :-). tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bopolissimus.blogspot.com http://monotrematica.blogspot.com The shortest distance between two points is under construction. -- Noelie Altito _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
