Re: [Xen-users] Xen + SAN

[Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:

> If you need SAN for other purposes (e.g. live migration), then others
> have already provided some good example. However, personally I'd check
> again with the requirement. It's possible that the "best" setup for
> you might be:
> - a zfs-based storage appliance (e.g. napp-it, nexentastor) with lots
> of disks (mirror), lots of memory, and SSD for L2ARC/SLOG to provide
> high I/O throughput
> - nfs and image-based disks to provide easy management
> - tap:aio or tap:vhd on Xen side
Do you have any feeling for how such a setup might compare, 
performance wise, with a local disk setup with the same disks and LVM 
and a partition per client block device ?
At the moment I've got 4 boxes, and have similar issues to the OP - 
one has spare disk but not enough ram, others have no spare ram but 
spare disk, and so on. Apart from one box which is probably 
temporary, they are "hand me down" Dell servers with SCSI disks which 
are (relatively) hard to obtain/expensive in large sizes. So I have 
been toying with setting up a box with a few SAS or SATA disks and 
migrating some of the guest storage to it.
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