<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>On Fri, 2019-04-12 at 11:04 -0400, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:</div><pre> They've never failed in all these</pre><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>years.</pre></blockquote><pre><br></pre><pre>Congrats on adding the kiss of death to your new VM hosting process.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>The sysadmin overhead of each VM on it's own LV is minimal. Its especially useful if more space is needed to be added to a VM.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>The LVM snapshot is easier to do that inner VM backups but provides far less control over restores than the other - all or none vs. all or any.</pre><div><br></div><div>I've provisioned things with Thin LV but never used the capabilities so I don't do that any more. The large VM hosting setup at work uses Ovirt to manage the libvirt/KVM and the underlying storage is handled by gluster (we must have the hot motion redundancy). This is a 4 node hosting setup with 256GB RAM in each node. </div><div><br></div><div>For a single host setup, gluster makes no sense. But multiple disks in a replicated LV does make sense.</div><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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