[TriLUG] Disk subsystem recommendations

Joseph Tate dragonstrider at gmail.com
Wed Nov 25 16:31:14 EST 2009


I don't think you want the overhead of LVM.  I'd stick with straight partitions.

Why not go solid state disks?

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:02 PM, btncix btncix <btncix at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know much about VMWare nor much about virtualization, but if your
> main concern is performance, I would suggest you keep RAID-0 and create
> separate partitions. If you're worried about flexibility with hard drive
> partitions, look into LVM for your root partitions and logical partitions
> for your boot partitions. Of course, this more difficult to setup than what
> you were thinking about, but it let's you keep RAID-0 and still create your
> VMs with direct physical access to hard drive.
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