How about: * Linux Base OS on the first disk. backup images will be stored here. * raid 0 on 2nd and 3rd disks. VM's will be created there.
If you don't mind OpenSolaris as the base OS and virtualbox or kqemu/qemu for the following reasons: * ZFS compression. VM images are highly compressible, 1.5x or higher. * Attack of the clones. Create say, base Linux VM 10Gb. then create 5 VM clones of the base linux. you say you need 50Gb of total space? how about 200Mb of space only on each one? This works since ZFS clones are just writable snapshots, and ZFS only stores the deltas compared to the original base VM OS. Efficient use of space and No redundant data. * VM speed creation. It only takes seconds to create a ZFS clone, which is just another guest VM, and as mentioned above, takes minimal space. Tremendous savings on disk space and your time. -- regards, Andre | http://www.varon.ca On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:28 AM, Miguel Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm very impressed with kvm, running Windows XP, other Linuxen, and Solaris. > But, with a single disk, I find myself short on disk I/O and seek time. > > I'm thinking of getting 2 more disks and: > 1. On the first 2 disks, RAID 0 for swap, /tmp and maybe the base OS > since reinstalling this is no big deal. > 2. On the 3rd disk, /home which will contain the virtual machine image files. > > What do you think? _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
