On 07/11 07:54 , Christian Völker wrote:
> On 11/07/2011 16:15, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> >
> > So you're running LVM and DRBD on the ESX guest machine?
> > Isn't that a notable performance hit? Especially keeping 4 snapshots
> > simultaneously?
> >
> I'm running LVM on a virtual machine and on top drbd, yes. But without
> snapshots. The snapshots are taken only on the physical box. There's no
> sense in taking snapshots on both. The virtual machine is stored on a
> RAID10 on the ESX.
> 
> And performance? Well, I don't know. It backups up my around 20 machines
> (mostly Linux) without any issues. I don't mind the backup or re-org of
> the files taking 30% longer...it's still all done within 24hours.

Ok. Thanks for letting me know. Glad it works for you in your environment.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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