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> > If all the 40 VMs start copying files at the same time that would mean<br>
> > that the bandwidth share for each VM would be tiny.<br>
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> Would they? It's a possibility, and fun to think about, but what
are the chances? You will usually run into this with backups, cron, and other scheduled [non-business load] tasks. These are far cheaper to fix
with manually adjusting schedules than any other way, unless you are
rolling in dough.<br><br>I have a classroom environment where every VM is always doing the same thing in step ie. formatting partitions, installing software etc.. We hit the disk like a bunch of crazy people. I'm replacing my setup with three Intel SSDs in a RAID0 with either iSCSI or ATAoE. The RAID0 will be synced to a disk based storage as backup. We'll see pretty soon how many concurrent disk based operations this setup can handle.<br>
<br>I'll be bonding 3 or 4 of the iSCSI box ethernet cards and then going from there to see what each of the servers in the cloud needs as far as their connection.<br><br clear="all">Grant McWilliams<br><br>Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use Windows." <br>
Now they have two problems.<br><br>
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