Hello, Im hoping to get a few hardware setups for building new xen boxes. Below are what I could come up with so far, wondering what else people are running, or if people are running any of these, how etc. Any info would be great! Method 1 ------------- raid-1 #1 - to run vm images raid-1 #2 - to store the backups of the images ie two 640g raid1s, i would backup the images to the second raid, then have a remote backup box back those up Method 2 ------------- raid-1 to run vm images Same as method 1, 640g raid1, remote backup box to come around and backup the images of the running virts Method 3 ------------- san based, whether carving out AoE using lvm, or iscsi or nfs (i would only mount a volume on a single box at a time) Backup in this method im unclear on, if i did aoe/iscsi then that would mean i could backup files on the san unit unless i had a clusterfs to mount it, but i could do an lvm snapshot and then read that right? I also realize there are (at least?) two backup types or whatever, disaster recovery and file level. I would ideally do both, backup the entire disk image, and then also have the ability to backup the file data inside of those. Anyway, ive read a lot of different ways to house stuff, but i didnt really pay attention to hardware specs or setups NOT using a san/nas. Hope im not blabbering too much =) Thanks! _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users