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Re: [Xen-users] High Number of VMs

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] High Number of VMs
From: Ciro Iriarte <cyruspy@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:28:23 -0400
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2011/9/13 John Madden <jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Any advantage on using large luns+LVM instead of independent LUNs
>> appart from snapshots? (according to Novell support LVM on top of LVM
>> is a bad thing...). I remember reading that Xen itself implements some
>> kind of locking...
>
> I think easier management is the key.  If you're already managing the SAN
> and assigning LUNs to your boxen, then managing multipath.conf across your
> cluster, it's nice to only do that 4 times for a couple TB rather than once
> for each VM, for example.
>
> John

Csync2 is your friend here :)

Regards,

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