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RE: [Xen-users] Xen network tune for fileserver in DomU

To: J.Witvliet@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Xen network tune for fileserver in DomU
From: Stefan de Konink <stefan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:21:12 +0200 (CEST)
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On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 J.Witvliet@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> In other threads people stated that fileservers (nfs/smb) should _not_
> be done from the Dom-0.
> If you can't use neither DOM-0 nor DOM-U as fileserver, isn't that a
> waste of resources?

What people are pointing out that running an actual /fileserver/ a thing
that has harddisks at all, virtualised, performs significantly worse than
a dedicated machine.


Stefan


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