Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > Of course you need physical volumes but look for a storage > solution that will also run as direct to disk as possible, > maybe something based on the newer SATA/SAS where the RAID > logic is built into the enclosure and a plain SATA/SAS > card is in the server which can be actively shared between > multiple domUs. > > If that is out of your budget then use some type of hardware > RAID for your volumes to get rid of any use of software RAID > in dom0 for guest storage. I'm not sure what the distinction is between your first paragraph and the second. When I read the first paragraph, I thought: "hardware RAID" but it seems like you're referring to something else. > Same goes for the network side of things. Install the latest > PV drivers in the domUs to get the latest advances. I didn't realize these existed. I just used whatever was pulled down when I install xen/kernel-xen via yum. Where can I get these PV drivers? Big thanks, Ross. This was extremely helpful! johnn