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Re: [Xen-users] XCP: install to local disk mirror (md raid)

To: Jimmy Dorff <jdorff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] XCP: install to local disk mirror (md raid)
From: Dustin Marquess <dmarquess@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 14:23:20 -0500
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As far as I'm aware, XCP has no way of configuring software RAID during install.

Even worse, as far as I can figure out, doing upgrades of XCP itself
requires you pulling the RAID apart, performing the upgrade, and then
redoing the RAID.

-Dustin

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Jimmy Dorff <jdorff@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Just trying to figure out XCP. Our current env is running xen with CentOS
> dom0. We do a pxe/kickstart install that set's up the dom0 root and boot on
> a md mirror and a LVM vg on a pair of mirrored "large" disks for VM storage.
>
> Is it possible to do this with XCP ? I've looked at the XenServer "Creating
> an answerfile for unattended PXE installation", but I didn't see any
> software raid info. Google found a manual post install method, but that's
> rather crude and error prone.
>
> Thanks,
> Jimmy
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