virtualization - The state of XEN vs KVM for inhouse virtual server ...
The Web seems undecided. Additional Info: "life time" of the server hardware that we purchase will be 2-3 years There is the possibility that we might migrate systems into cloud …
virtualization - How would you build a cheap Virtual Server farm …
I would like a virtual server farm at home, ideally 6 virtual servers, all for my own personal development. What is the cheapest way for me to achieve this? I'd ideally like to use VMWare …
virtualization - Consumer (or prosumer) SSD's vs. fast HDD in a …
Jul 21, 2015 · What are the pro's and con's of consumer SSDs vs. fast 10-15k spinning drives in a server environment? We cannot use enterprise SSDs in our case as they are prohibitively …
RAID 10 or RAID 5 for multiple VMs - what is the best choice?
We will be using the free VMware ESXi for virtualization. For a start, we plan to build and start the following VMs - all with Windows Server 2008 R2 x64: Active Directory server MS SQL Server …
hard drive - SSD or HDD for server - Server Fault
Oct 4, 2019 · The server has a RAID-6 array of HDDs for the bulk network storage and NVR, a single high-performance MLC SSD for MySQL, and 3 consumer TLC drives in RAID-5 for …
virtualization - Using a high end NAS as a vSphere ... - Server Fault
Jul 12, 2017 · 4 I have a project on to replace the storage that our virtual farms are using. We replaced the hosts last year but due to budget constraints we couldn't afford to replace the …
QEMU fails with permission denied when using storage pools
Feb 22, 2025 · I have trouble understanding permissions with QEMU/KVM images in storage pools. My machines store their QCOW2-Files in an LVM thinpool device. Here are the relevant …
web server - Data center vs Data warehouse - Server Fault
Sep 30, 2009 · A data center or datacenter (or datacentre), also called a server farm, 1 is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications …
virtualization - What happens when a physical machine ... - Server …
Aug 23, 2015 · I'm getting started with virtualization so bear with me. In virtual environments applications run in a hypervisor's layer. So a single physical machine could have many virtual …
Storage for KVM virtualization - Server Fault
Jun 14, 2013 · 3 Not sure about KVM, but recent Hyper-V presentations for the new 2012 R2 vrsion have shown that MS is using DAS (Directly Attached Storage) on every node ;) SO, A …