Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: Centos KVM Host/Guest functions and LVM considerations

2011-09-16 Thread Eric Shubert
On 09/16/2011 01:10 PM, Ed Heron wrote: >I've been considering this type of setup for a distributed > virtualization setup. I have several small locations and we would be > more comfortable having a host in each. > >I was nervous about running the firewall as a virtual machine, though > if

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: Centos KVM Host/Guest functions and LVM considerations

2011-09-16 Thread Ed Heron
I've been considering this type of setup for a distributed virtualization setup. I have several small locations and we would be more comfortable having a host in each. I was nervous about running the firewall as a virtual machine, though if nobody screams bloody murder, I'll start exploring i

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: Centos KVM Host/Guest functions and LVM considerations

2011-09-16 Thread Eric Shubert
On 09/16/2011 11:11 AM, Ed Heron wrote: > On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 10:46 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: >> ... >> Now, take all of your ideal logical servers (and the networking which >> ties them all together), and make them VMs on your host. I've done this, >> and these are the VMs I presently have (the

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: Centos KVM Host/Guest functions and LVM considerations

2011-09-16 Thread Ed Heron
On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 10:46 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: > ... > Now, take all of your ideal logical servers (and the networking which > ties them all together), and make them VMs on your host. I've done this, > and these are the VMs I presently have (the list is still evolving): > .) net (IPCop d

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: Centos KVM Host/Guest functions and LVM considerations

2011-09-16 Thread Eric Shubert
On 09/14/2011 09:51 AM, Jeff Boyce wrote: > Greetings - > > I will be getting a new server for my company in the next few months and am > trying to get a better understanding of some of the basic theoretical > approaches to using Centos KVM on a server. I have found plenty of things > to read that