So what guest OSs are you planning to support? (And which filesystems in those guests?) That's kind of important...
Geoff On Oct 28, 2012, at 7:56 PM, Jason Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Decent read: > http://lass.cs.umass.edu/papers/pdf/FAST04.pdf > > As far as CS + XenServer, I prefer NFS. Easier to manage, thin provisioning > works from the get go (which is super important as XenServer uses CoW > (linked clones) iterations from the template you use.) By default, XS uses > LVM over iSCSI with iSCSI which can be confusing to administer. That and it > doesn't thin provision... which sucks... > > In theory there are latency penalties with NFS (as mentioned in the paper) > but in a live deployment, I never ran into this. > On Oct 28, 2012 9:03 PM, "Trevor Francis" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I know this has been discussed on other forums with limited success in >> explaining which is best in for aproduction environment, but could you >> cloudstackers weigh in which storage technology would be best for both >> primary and secondary storage for VMs running on Xenserver? Both are pretty >> trivial to setup with NFS being the easiest. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Trevor Francis >> >> >>
