Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20110215/e8e6d321/attachment.htm>