[DRBD-user] Decent shared storage setup for virtualization

Ralf Gross Ralf-Lists at ralfgross.de
Tue Feb 15 08:38:09 CET 2011

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Dennis Jacobfeuerborn schrieb:
> ...
> 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.

I'm not sure if RAID 5/6 + DRBD is a good combination for hosting VMs.
It's certainly better than for databases. But for writes RAID 5/6 will
slow down everything. 

Ralf



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