On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > On 5.4.2011 21.49, compdoc wrote: >> For reasons of speed and ease of maintenance and backups, what I've settled >> on is: a small separate drive for the host to boot from, a small separate >> drive for the guest OSes (I like using qcow2 on WD Raptors), and then a >> large array on a raid controller for storage which the guests and host can >> share access to. > > Aren't the guests and host then competing for that large array? How is > this arrangement better than other setups, for example having the host & > each guest (with their associated data) each on their own disk, or > partition? Doesn't it feel a bit wrong to be tying physical infrastructure to VMs in that way? I'd have thought the large iSCSI device providing storage (not all necessarily identical) to a Virtual Server that then slices and dices appropriately to VMs seems a lot more sane. jh