On 01/28/11 9:19 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:14 PM, John R Pierce<pierce at 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.