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Re: [Xen-users] Diskless xen

To: Javier Guerra <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Diskless xen
From: Stefan de Konink <skinkie@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 17:08:03 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Denis J. Cirulis" <denis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Javier Guerra wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Denis J. Cirulis <denis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I want to implement a diskless xen hypervisor. The way I suppose it will 
> > work is xen booted over pxe and
> > getting iscsi san storage to store vm images.
> >
> > Is solution like that usable ?
>
> it certainly is.  i believe somebody here did that, but using AoE
> instead of iSCSI....
>
> the result is extremely neat, splitting your hardware needs in two
> types of boxes: storage boxes, and processor/RAM boxes.  adding extra
> storage or processing power means just plugging it in and adding it to
> the respective tables. no more software installing!

For now I stick with NFS-root, but there in no reason not to go to
PXE/initrd entirely...


Stefan


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