@travisdh1 said in Storage Setup for KVM:

@emad-r said in Storage Setup for KVM:

@eddiejennings

keep your images and ISOs in the default location of /var/lib/libvirt/images/?

Yes I do, but I create 2 new folders there, iso and vm.

Fedora will be presented a 4 TB block device ?
Why dont you separe that a little, and have more fun. Block device I assume DAS, if no why dont you make the storage reliable and robust, and make it its own server, like another fedora or centos install, with RAID 10 and the simplest option to share is NFS, and this way you can have many KVMs and the migration feature will actually work, and you can do RAID on just /var, and you scan scale easily with KVM nodes + KVM nodes can be state file, think salt stack, and you can treat them as pure compute nodes.

Because @EddieJennings is talking about his home lab, which will consist of a single 1U server. That hadn't been mentioned in this thread.

Bah! Folks should be able to read my mind ;). There were some good ideas in this thread though.

What I decided on was giving enough space to / live comfortably, and gave everything else to /var.

@fuznutz04 said in Backup server comparison:

@black3dynamite Ah yes, SLAT. Almost forgot about that. I ran into that trying to install HV 2016 on a REALLY old box for testing. I could install it, but that's where the story ended.

If I get the E5620 or higher in the Xeon family, I think I should be fine. I know for sure that the E5620 works. I have them in my R710.

The same thing happened to me. So it made my decision to use KVM even easier for what I was using the server for.

@scottalanmiller said in Seagate Shows Off World's Fastest Hard Drive:

That's true, we are definitely getting to the point where we need faster ways to get data on and off of all drives.

For sure, the data processing boards need a change too.

Maybe they just weren't ready for production yet.

@krisleslie said in Adding additional Drive to XenServer host, get error:

@black3dynamite i use 1 hdd 😞

I meant virtual disks. VM1 with virtual disk 1 = OS and virtual disk 2 = data

@momurda said in Intel's NVMe VRoC System Now Out:

If an SSD is rated at 1DWPD for 5 years and in actual use one only uses .2DWPD, does that mean that such an ssd would nominally last 25 years barring some other catastrophic hw failure not related to the destructive nature of flash program and erase cycles?

All reliability is about chances of failure. So it’s likely to last that long.

Way more discussion about this thread in this other thread: https://mangolassi.it/topic/19657/revisiting-zfs-and-freenas-in-2019

Also we could achieve hyperconvergence "the other way" (unlike having a global shared filesystem like Gluster or Ceph) but use fine grained replication (per VM/VM disk). That's really interesting (data locality, tiering, thin pro etc.). Obviously, we'll collaborate to see how to integrate this in our stack 🙂

Is there anything new with updating the script? 🙂

No experience with it, I'm afraid.

@popester said in Hybrid RAID SAMIT Video:

@scottalanmiller sounds like a "Hot Mess"

Pretty much 🙂

Instantaneous Storage Evacuation Event

This is totally a coincidence that this was the next one up in the queue to post here. But talk about perfect timing! This came up at least three times today alone.