With the specs provided, you'll want to create a zone with local storage enabled (as well as change the global setting that allows system vms to be placed on primary storage). That way, when you add hosts, their local disks will be added as primary storage.
Regards, Kirk Jantzer http://about.me/kirkjantzer On Aug 16, 2013 3:57 PM, "Tyler Wilson" <k...@linuxdigital.net> wrote: > Greetings All, > > We are looking into setting up Cloudstack for one of our new racks and I am > trying to get a picture of our options for storage; > > 1. Can we use primary storage with the specs below? It seems primary > storage is meant for single, dedicated storage boxes (SAN, NFS) that don't > house VM's as well (which is our goal). > > 3x Dual E5-2620, 256 GB RAM, 10x512 GB SSD (2x10gbps) (Hosts) > 1x E5-2620, 64 GB RAM, 5x512 GB SSD (1gbps) (Possibly management server) > 1x Dual E5-2620, 64 GB RAM, 8x1 TB SATA3 (1gbps) (possibly backup/secondary > storage server) > > 2. If so, how/what do we need to do to set this up? > > Thanks for your help! >
