[DRBD-user] Decent shared storage setup for virtualization

Zaeem Arshad zaeem.arshad at gmail.com
Tue Feb 15 08:44:02 CET 2011

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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Mike Lovell <mike at dev-zero.net> wrote:

> On 02/14/2011 12:59 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>

I see that it's not on the top of your list but what are your IO
requirements? 1 TB SATA will be either 7.2K or 10K RPM and a RAID 5 write
penalty will seriously decrease your IOPS. Have you given a thought to it?

Regards

Zaeem
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