Re: [Xen-users] Xen hypervisor and HDDs with 4K sectors

[Peter Milesson <miles@xxxxxxxx>]

On 2019-05-26 21:28, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Peter Milesson <miles@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for your input. That's the point. I have seen a few posts that the 
> > advanced disk format using 4K sectors is not compatible with Xen. RedHat/CentOS 
> > (which I'm planning to use) has got support from ver. 6.1. I'm planning to use 
> > a HPE server, and there is no information whether they supply 4K disks, except 
> > in a few cases, which are 512e (4K disks emulating the classic sector size of 
> > 512 bytes). One may assume, that a manufacturer like HP isn't supplying ancient 
> > technology, but better safe than sorry.
> Ah, I see now where you're coming from.
> Given the amount you are planning to spend, can't your HPE account manager either get the 
> information or arrange some lab time to find out ? Ah no, silly question, they'll 
> probably consider that "back of the sofa" small change :-(
Hi Simon,

I need to be vigilant here. The previous dealer specialist quit, and 
after that I feel that the competence level is way down. Which means I 
have to inform myself a lot more in depth. So therefore, all those 
seemingly strange questions that I did not need to consider previously.
Best regards,

Peter



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