On 01/28/11 9:19 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:14 PM, John R Piercepierce@hogranch.com wrote:
no way in H*** I'd run a storage server as a VM, especially if its serving the same host as its hosted on.
*Configuration* storage, such as /etc/ files, sure. Actual backup? No virtualized host does that as well as the underlying virtualization server. There are plenty of lightweight, robust backup systems, such as rsnapshot and Amanda, which can be performanced tuned not to overwhelm the resources of the server itself and whose installation requirements are quite modest.
the OP wasn't talking about backup servers, he was talking about primary NAS/SAN storage for his two virtual servers, having a VM on one of the servers providing primary storage for both servers.