On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:54:01PM +0000, Dave Scott wrote: > Hi, >
Hello Dave, > XCP does use VHD format on top of the LVs it creates on iSCSI/FC storage. > The current problem is that it doesn't support "thin provisioning" (i.e. > not pre-allocating). It's great for making snapshots and clones but not so > good for space usage... as you observed! > > There is an early prototype of an XCP/vhd storage daemon which has an LVM > implementation optimized for being able to quickly resize volumes. When > that stabilizes, we'll be able to have thin provisioning. We should put > the development repo for the prototype on xenbits somewhere. > Any progress on supporting thinprov on block-storage ? Thanks, -- Pasi > > Cheers, > > Dave > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martinx - > ????? > Sent: 23 March 2010 20:47 > To: Xen List > Subject: [Xen-users] XCP storage repository using VHD on top of the LVM > (FC shared too) instead of the NFS. > > > > Hi! > > I thinking why the XCP/XenServer has an option to use the VHD format only > for the NFS Servers... How to use the VHD on top of a local or shared LVM? > > I mean, I want to create a logical volume of 500G and within this volume, > I'll create the VHDs files instead LVs for each domU. > > And I'll use this setup on top of my FC IBM DS4700 shared storage... > > It is possible?! I want the good of both worlds, the space efficient > feature of the VHDs (not pre-allocating) with the speed of the local or > fiber channel storage. > > Thanks! > Thiago > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users _______________________________________________ Xen-api mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-api
