Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
I'm trying to wrap my head around storage setups that might work for virtualization and I wonder if people here have experience with creating a drbd setup for this purpose. What I am currently planning to implement is this: 2 Storage 8-bay nodes with 8gb RAM and a dual-core Xeon processor. Each system with gets equipped with 8 1TB SATA drives in a raid-5 configuration. Networking will either be two dual-port cards or two quad-core cards which I plan to setup as bonded interfaces (balance-xor). I'm particularly worried about the networking side being a bottleneck for the setup. I was looking into 10gbit and infiniband equipment but they drive the cost up quite a bit and I'm not sure if they are necessary if I can bond several 1gbit interfaces. Any thoughts? Regards, Dennis