[THIN] Re: OT: VMWare setup
- From: "Joe Shonk" <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:22:01 -0700
Why not use Raid 10 across the split backplane. You'll gain a considerable
performance increase over your current setup.
The default values are generally ok..
Joe
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Evan Mann
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 1:09 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] OT: VMWare setup
I'm loading up VMWare ESX 2.5.2 on a single Dell server. The server is
spec'd out with a 2x4 split backplane and 5 146gig drives and 8 gigs of RAM.
I don't have much to go on except the VMWare documentation and this is the
first time I've done this.
This server won't be for Citrix, but just a general VM server. I'm not sure
the best way I should chunk this thing up storage wise.
Since I have a split backplane on the RAID system, 2 drives are setup RAID1,
and the remaining 4 drives are in a RAD5 + hotspare.
The guide says to put a 50 meg /boot, and a swap that is 2x the size of
memory you allocate in reserved memory for the service console. I've opted
to go with 512meg of ram for the service console which it says is for 32+
VM's. The next step up is 800megs for maximum but I doubt I'll even do 32,
so I think 512meg reserved is fine. Based on that, the swap would be 1gig.
After that, it says to mount the root (/) partition with "about 2500 MB".
And then it doesn't give you much else for input in the install guide. I
could also opt for automatic partitioning, which would do the same as above,
and leave the rest as an extended partition it looks like.
Since I have a RAID 1 and a RAID 5, what should I put where? I'd obviously
put /boot on the RAID 1 but what about / and swap? Should those go there as
well leaving the RAID5 for VM use? Do I need to do any additional
partitioning beyond /boot, / and swap ?
Thanks for the help!
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