Alastair Sherringham <[email protected]> wrote on 03/15/2011 09:17:33 AM:
> Re: [rhelv5-list] Prevent LVM on SAN belonging to virtual machine > autoconfiguring on other hosts? > > On 15 March 2011 13:28, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > We want LVM in our guests for many of the same reasons Chris Adams > > mentioned. > > I use both Xen and KVM on various systems and have always been torn on > whether to use LVM inside the guest or not. I found things can get > complicated quite quickly with the way disks are seen - especially if > you want to be able to also access guest volumes on the host (e.g. via > a tool like kpartx etc.). I thought LVM on top of that could get too > complicated. Do you not find things get hard to manage? There are times where we need to access the guest's disks outside of the guest. But we never do that against a running disk. We either shutdown the guest or use our SAN's cloning capability. We also do not access the disk from the host system, we have a few management systems that we use for that task. It took a little while to settle into this work flow, but its been fairly productive. its all gonna change when we move to RHEV though... -greg _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
