[geeks] Virtual Machine Hosting

[Shannon Hendrix]

On May 8, 2009, at 08:58 , Lionel Peterson wrote:


> Is the storage local or on the network?Can you dedicate a physical  
> local drive to the VM? What about a VM specific path to the network  
> storage (each VM would have two NICs minimum, one for connectivity  
> by users, the other for NAS/SAN access)?

The storage is local.  In this case, it's our own subsidiary that runs  
the machine.

Xen just isn't great on I/O I suppose.

In fact, VMs in general kinda suck on I/O, compared to something like  
zones.


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