[CentOS] RAID advice? and KVM advice?

Tue Oct 20 06:48:42 UTC 2009
RedShift <redshift at pandora.be>

Dave Stevens wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> In the not too distant future I will be commissioning a new CentOS  
> (5.4?) box with 4 identical SATA drives. I'd like to set them up as  
> RAID 1+0 for speed and redundancy. I've read the RHEL 5 deployment  
> guide on raid setup and it seems to cover the basics of software raid  
> pretty well, but doesn't cover 1+0. Does anyone have a reference for  
> that kind of configuration?
> 

Hello


The current anaconda doesn't allow you to select RAID10, however, RAID10 does work if you configure such an array manually.


> I'd also like to have two virtual domains, one for CentOS and one for  
> Debian. any suggestions for setup docs for that kind of arrangement?
> 


Read the virtualization docs.


Best regards,

Glenn