[GRLUG] Xen

[David Szostek]

Thanks Al!

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> [mailto:grlug-bounces at grlug.org] On Behalf Of Al Tobey
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:51 AM
> To: grlug at grlug.org
> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Xen
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:04 PM, David Szostek 
> <dave at uvhosting.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  Consider a server with a 4TB RAID5 volume of SATA drives 
> and a 450GB 
> > RAID 5  volume of 15k SCSI drives.
> >
> >  When creating a guest domain in Xen, we specify the main 
> storage for 
> > it on  the 4TB volume when we create it.
> >
> >  We would also like to allow this guest domain some storage on the 
> > 450GB  volume.
> >
> >  How would this be accomplished? Anyone have any ideas? 
> Google hasn't 
> > been  very helpful (though my search terms could suck too).
> 
> Sorry for the late post.   I don't follow the list very closely these
> days, since I live in San Diego now ;)
> 
> I'm doing a big Xen rollout right now and for your situation, I'd
> highly recommend LVM backed storage.    Put one volume group on the
> 4TB volume, and another on the 450GB volume.    Don't use the terrible
> naming convention Fedora has by default - call them something 
> useful like vgxen00.
> 
> So if your 4TB drive is one LUN on /dev/sda, create one big 
> partition with type "Linux LVM" (8e) then: pvcreate /dev/sda1 
> vgcreate vgxen00 /dev/sda1
> 
> Then you can lvcreate your VM's and do all kinds of neat stuff.
> There are plenty of LVM howto's on the 'net.    virt-install also
> supports LVM volumes and they're typically a bit faster than 
> file-backed VM's.
> 
> lvcreate -n ${vm_hostname}-disk0 -L 20G vgxen00
> 
> Good luck!
> -Al Tobey
> 
> >
> >  Thanks much!
> >  ~dave
> >
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