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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @gjacobse
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      @gjacobse said:

      I would think local storage would be easier, faster, and less overhead.

      However - I could be wrong.

      Yup, nothing is going to beat putting the files right on an HP SmartArray.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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        @JaredBusch said:

        On VMWare, I always load the ISO files up on the data store directly so I can mount them as needed for VM creation.

        Same here. In XenServer I normally mount a CIFS share loaded with ISO files to make things easy.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
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          @johnhooks said:

          Out of curiosity has anyone used software RAID with XenServer?

          Looked into it. I'm a big user of hardware RAID for stuff in this category, I like the features and need others to be able to swap hard drives when they fail, but it will work just fine.

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403
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            So i did the "right" or best practice, in limiting my Environment by not introducing a VM or another host, and just loading my ISO's directly into the share.

            Awesome!

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @coliver
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              @coliver said:

              @johnhooks said:

              Out of curiosity has anyone used software RAID with XenServer?

              Yep, very unsupported but it works.

              Important to note that it is fully supported by Xen, just not the XenServer package.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
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                @johnhooks said:

                @coliver said:

                @johnhooks said:

                @coliver said:

                @johnhooks said:

                Out of curiosity has anyone used software RAID with XenServer?

                Yep, very unsupported but it works.

                That's what I read. I was kind of afraid to try it because I saw some people had trouble with 6.5 and it was fine in 6.2. I didn't know if it was worth it to try or not.

                I haven't updated to 6.5 yet. I probably will wait till I get an actual server with a hardware raid controller. Right now i just have a whitebox desktop with 4 drives in it. Works fairly well for what I use it for but I want to expand the functionality in the future.

                I wonder why they don't support software RAID since the Dom0 is CentOS.

                Too much "extra" stuff most likely.

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                • dafyreD
                  dafyre
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                  Would it be worth installing Fedora or CentOS and installing the Xen packages to learn it... or just go straight to XenServer ?

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                  • stacksofplatesS
                    stacksofplates
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                    Here's another question to piggyback off of that one: I know you can use VirtManager to manage Xen vm's but can you use XenCenter to manage Xen without XenServer?

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                    • coliverC
                      coliver @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      @coliver said:

                      @johnhooks said:

                      Out of curiosity has anyone used software RAID with XenServer?

                      Yep, very unsupported but it works.

                      Important to note that it is fully supported by Xen, just not the XenServer package.

                      Interesting. May have to look at deploying just Xen in the future. Although I do like XenServer's management.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @dafyre
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                        @dafyre said:

                        Would it be worth installing Fedora or CentOS and installing the Xen packages to learn it... or just go straight to XenServer ?

                        If you want a more powerful, more up to date Xen this can make sense. But never use CentOS, it lacks support for Xen specifically because Red Hat isn't pro-Xen. Use OpenSuse for the latest and greatest virtualization technologies.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
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                          @johnhooks said:

                          Here's another question to piggyback off of that one: I know you can use VirtManager to manage Xen vm's but can you use XenCenter to manage Xen without XenServer?

                          Not unless you modify Xen to add the necessary APIs.

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