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Re: [Xen-users] XCP 1.6


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Thank you Sébastien.

 

I have an HP DL160 server with dual quad core CPUs, 12 Gb of RAM. The machine has a pair of 120Gb SSD drives and a pair of Western Digital 1Tb GP4 hard drives.

 

It’s main function is to replace a Windows 2003 server which has a 40Gb operating partition, and a similar sized data partition. On the OS partition it currently runs a mail package, and the data drive contains just websites. The machine also runs MySQL.

 

How would you suggest I best configure the new server? Although it has a RAID card, it isn’t my intention to use RAID at all though I am open to suggestions.

 

I will create a Windows Server 2008 VM. Im guessing I will need this to have at least some storage on the actual hard drives for its swap file. Am I best to run Windows from the SSD or to have the Windows installation on hard drive too? I don’t really know how much benefit I’d see from having the Windows system files on an SSD.

 

My assumption is that it’s the website datafiles, and the datafiles for MySQL that will benefit most from being on the SSD, but I’m happy to be told I’m wrong.

 

How would people suggest I best configure this drive wise? The machine will obviously be running more VM’s in the future but to start with it’s the one VM that I need running correctly and efficiently.

 

Thanks for reading this.

 

Regards,

 

Chris.

 

From: Sébastien RICCIO [mailto:sr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 06 December 2012 18:12
To: Chris Long
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] XCP 1.6

 

Hi,

It usually creates a 4GB partition

[root@xcpsanbox ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             4.0G  2.2G  1.7G  57% /

Cheers,
Sébastien

On 06.12.2012 18:43, Chris Long wrote:

Hey all.

 

Can someone tell me, when installing XCP 1.6 what size partition does it require the basic install? By that I mean not VMs etc, just the basic XCP installation itself?

 

Regards,

 

Chris.




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