|

Mapping internal (SATA, SAS, RAID, etc) disks from XenServer host to VM

In my post here, I have explained (actually – created a shell script) to map USB disks to VMs directly. While this is easy and simple, it becomes more challenging when you want to map internal SATA disks. They are not attached to the “Removable Storage” SR, and thus, behave differently. The solution is to…

| | | |

XenServer 6.0 with DRBD

DRBD is a low-cost shared-SAN-like solution, which has several great benefits, among which are no single point of failure, and very low cost (local storage and network cable). Its main disadvantages are in the need to constantly monitor it, and make sure it does what’s expected. Also – in some cases – performance might be affected greatly….