[THIN] Re: OT: VMWare setup
- From: "Joe Shonk" <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:46:18 -0700
Perhaps, but you've already got the hardware so it's just a configuration
change at this point. And if it's overkill, why the Raid 1+Raid 5 +
Hotspare to begin with?
Joe
On 4/13/06, Evan Mann <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> It would be overkill for the purpose of this VMWare server.
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Joe Shonk
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:22 AM
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> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: OT: VMWare setup
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> Why not use Raid 10 across the split backplane… You'll gain a
> considerable performance increase over your current setup.
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> The default values are generally ok..
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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 ?
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> Thanks for the help!
>
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