Re: Separate disks with cloud deployment

2010-03-25 Thread Jonathan Ellis
If you have enough data or insert volume that you can reasonably use dedicated hardware, you should probably use that. (http://spyced.blogspot.com/2010/03/why-your-data-may-not-belong-in-cloud.html) If you don't, then having CL + data on the same volume isn't going to hurt nearly as much as sharin

Re: Separate disks with cloud deployment

2010-03-25 Thread Ethan Rowe
On 03/25/2010 11:18 AM, Ethan Rowe wrote: [snip] I'll defer to the Rackspace folks regarding Rackspace Cloud; it has been I/O on average since you're dealing with a real, local disk. But I don't know about getting a second disk in that environment, though. That should have said "better I/O o

Re: Separate disks with cloud deployment

2010-03-25 Thread Ethan Rowe
On 03/25/2010 11:10 AM, Mark Greene wrote: The FAQ page makes mention of using separate disks for the commit log and data directory. How would one go about achieving this in a cloud deployment such as Rackspace cloud servers or EC2 EBS? Or is it just preferred to use dedicated hardware to get t

Separate disks with cloud deployment

2010-03-25 Thread Mark Greene
The FAQ page makes mention of using separate disks for the commit log and data directory. How would one go about achieving this in a cloud deployment such as Rackspace cloud servers or EC2 EBS? Or is it just preferred to use dedicated hardware to get the optimal performance? Thanks In Advance! Be