Home Lab XenServer - preferred Storage method
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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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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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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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@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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@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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@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.
