RE: [Xen-users] Hardware performance question : Disk RPM speed&XenPerformance

[Jean-Francois Couture <jfcouture@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-users-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Rudi Ahlers
> Envoyé : 13 septembre 2010 13:58
> À : Jason Showell
> Cc : Jeff Sturm; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; admin@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Objet : Re: [Xen-users] Hardware performance question : Disk RPM
> speed&XenPerformance
> 
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Jason Showell
> <JShowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I agree about the number of disks. Your idea of getting a bigger
> chassis is
> > something we are looking at for a customer at the moment.
> >
> > Our main Xen pool connect to Equallogics over iscsi. Something I have
> been
> > reading about just recently is getting a large chassis and installing
> 8 or
> > 10 disks in it and install Xen on a pair of mirrored drives and then
> install
> > Open Filer on the machine too. This means you can then present
> dynamic disks
> > to your Xen Dom0 and share the disks to another Dom0 should you want
> to and
> > allow you to add more disks in the future as you need more space.
> There are
> > a few articles out there about doing it but I haven?t personally
> tried it
> > yet although I have used Open Filer without issue before.
> >
> > Obviously if you already have the machine this might not work for you
> but
> > open filer is a cheap way of creating a good size NAS / SAN with
> iSCSI
> > capability.
> >
> >
> 
> 
> Openfiler hasn't been updated in 2 years. How do you find it's
> stability?
> 
Would FreeNAS be a good choice then ?
> 
> 
> --
> Kind Regards
> Rudi Ahlers
> SoftDux
> 
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