<div dir="rtl"><div dir="ltr">Hi,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I have taken 3 machines for a project: 2 machines will act as Xen servers and one machine will act as "storage". </div><div dir="ltr">
The storage box is just a machine with few hard disks connected with a RAID controller.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">What I would like to do is create few Xen VM's with the fastest possible I/O in terms of storage.</div>
<div dir="ltr">I have few options:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">1. I can create an LVM on the storage machine, create few Logical Volumes and export them as NFS to the Xen servers and configure each VM to some file images. Problem is, that file I/O with Xen is slower compared working with LVM's.</div>
<div dir="ltr">2. I can create an LVM on the storage machine, create few Logical Volumes, and export those as iSCSI devices. I'm not sure whats the performance of Xen with iSCSI devices exported from the storage box.</div>
<div dir="ltr">3. I can create few partitions on the storage machine, export them as iSCSI devices and do LVM on the Xen servers. Problem: I don't know how much the "penalty" doing LVM on the Xen machines.</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">My question: What is the best option?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks,</div><div dir="ltr">Hetz<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>my blog (hebrew): <a href="http://benhamo.org">http://benhamo.org</a><br>
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