Re: [Xen-users] domU disk image over NFS

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tomoki Taniguchi wrote:
> How safe is running a domU sda1 off of an image file located on an NFS?
>
> I am thinking about setting up a WEB server for hosting our internal
> web apps on
> a domU.  I am thinking about creating the root disk image on the NFS
> folder so that when i do i live migration the disk image is available
> on the new server.
>
> is this safe?
> how is the performance?
> is there a better way to do this without investing in SAN?
You should definitely look at iSCSI.  It's a "SAN solution" but doesn't 
require any special hardware, and is well supported under Linux & Xen.
Rich.

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