[Xen-users] Partition vs disk images

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Subject:	[Xen-users] Partition vs disk images
From:	"Rob Greene" <robgreene@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:13:28 -0500
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I realize this might be one of those religious topics, but is there any good rule of thumb as to how to setup storage for a Xen domU? Without really knowing any better, I'm basically going to make a disk image of the OS and the create a 'data' partition on my raid 5 volume for each virtual machine.

This is for use at home, so in reality it probably doesn't matter -- I just don't want to make any *really* stupid moves. If you need it, general specs on the machine are: quad core, 8GB ram, a 160GB boot volume and then 4x320 raid5. The 160GB will contain the disk images while the raid5 will be allocated for "data" (database, file server, myth, etc).

I guess I at least have a plan :-) ... but I'd be interested in some experienced feedback. Most of the stuff I've come across are how to do these tasks and not about planning.

Thanks!
-Rob

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