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XenServer shared drive configuration
Citrix XenServer 5.5 LicensingBacking up XenServer VMs to a Windows shareLUNs and virtual machinesNAS Performance: NFS vs Samba vs GlusterFSXenServer migrate machines between hostsGeneralized strategy for file server virtualization in XenserverUsing Glusterfs Dist-Replica Storage Pool for Hyper-V Virtual Machine StorageXenserver 7 does not see new raid array just added on Dell R710 serverXenserver: How to see local storage disk space used on command line?Is there a command to scan an existing XenServer storage repository for VMs?
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I have a server with below configuration
Intel Xeon E3 - 1230
2 * (Seagate 1 TeraByte) = total two terabyte
16 GB Ram
My Requirement : I need to run XenServer on this box and run 4 Ubuntu Virtual Machines and 1 windows VM.
I need to set about 750GB space for common share across all Virtual Machines. All the VMS need to read and write data from the common space. I intend to use NFS or Samba.
My Questions :
What is better NFS or Samba ?
One approach : I create a new Ubuntu VM and allocate about 750GB to it. I run NFS server on this VM and all other VMs just mount and use the space.
Second Approach : I can allocate the space to XenServer itself and run the NFS server on it.
Please suggest if there is any better solution than above two Or the best solution among the above two.
samba xenserver nfs
edited Jan 27 '12 at 11:56
Kenny Rasschaert
7,79733455
asked Jan 4 '12 at 23:55
firemonkeyfiremonkey
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I have a server with below configuration
Intel Xeon E3 - 1230
2 * (Seagate 1 TeraByte) = total two terabyte
16 GB Ram
My Requirement : I need to run XenServer on this box and run 4 Ubuntu Virtual Machines and 1 windows VM.
I need to set about 750GB space for common share across all Virtual Machines. All the VMS need to read and write data from the common space. I intend to use NFS or Samba.
My Questions :
What is better NFS or Samba ?
One approach : I create a new Ubuntu VM and allocate about 750GB to it. I run NFS server on this VM and all other VMs just mount and use the space.
Second Approach : I can allocate the space to XenServer itself and run the NFS server on it.
Please suggest if there is any better solution than above two Or the best solution among the above two.
samba xenserver nfs
edited Jan 27 '12 at 11:56
Kenny Rasschaert
7,79733455
asked Jan 4 '12 at 23:55
firemonkeyfiremonkey
12
add a comment |
I have a server with below configuration
Intel Xeon E3 - 1230
2 * (Seagate 1 TeraByte) = total two terabyte
16 GB Ram
My Requirement : I need to run XenServer on this box and run 4 Ubuntu Virtual Machines and 1 windows VM.
I need to set about 750GB space for common share across all Virtual Machines. All the VMS need to read and write data from the common space. I intend to use NFS or Samba.
My Questions :
What is better NFS or Samba ?
One approach : I create a new Ubuntu VM and allocate about 750GB to it. I run NFS server on this VM and all other VMs just mount and use the space.
Second Approach : I can allocate the space to XenServer itself and run the NFS server on it.
Please suggest if there is any better solution than above two Or the best solution among the above two.
samba xenserver nfs
edited Jan 27 '12 at 11:56
Kenny Rasschaert
7,79733455
asked Jan 4 '12 at 23:55
firemonkeyfiremonkey
12
I have a server with below configuration
Intel Xeon E3 - 1230
2 * (Seagate 1 TeraByte) = total two terabyte
16 GB Ram
My Requirement : I need to run XenServer on this box and run 4 Ubuntu Virtual Machines and 1 windows VM.
I need to set about 750GB space for common share across all Virtual Machines. All the VMS need to read and write data from the common space. I intend to use NFS or Samba.
My Questions :
What is better NFS or Samba ?
One approach : I create a new Ubuntu VM and allocate about 750GB to it. I run NFS server on this VM and all other VMs just mount and use the space.
Second Approach : I can allocate the space to XenServer itself and run the NFS server on it.
Please suggest if there is any better solution than above two Or the best solution among the above two.
samba xenserver nfs
samba xenserver nfs
edited Jan 27 '12 at 11:56
Kenny Rasschaert
7,79733455
asked Jan 4 '12 at 23:55
firemonkeyfiremonkey
12
edited Jan 27 '12 at 11:56
Kenny Rasschaert
7,79733455
asked Jan 4 '12 at 23:55
firemonkeyfiremonkey
12
edited Jan 27 '12 at 11:56
Kenny Rasschaert
7,79733455
edited Jan 27 '12 at 11:56
Kenny Rasschaert
7,79733455
edited Jan 27 '12 at 11:56
Kenny Rasschaert
7,79733455
7,79733455
asked Jan 4 '12 at 23:55
firemonkeyfiremonkey
12
asked Jan 4 '12 at 23:55
firemonkeyfiremonkey
12
asked Jan 4 '12 at 23:55
firemonkeyfiremonkey
12
12
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Re #1: With no other information to go on, I would likely pick Samba for your situation if forced to pick one, simply because samba support in linux is probably better than NFS support in Windows. However, if you have the option, why not support both?
Re #2: Create a new VM to host the storage. Running extra services within XenServer's dom0 is neither recommended nor supported by Citrix.
answered Jan 12 '12 at 14:06
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Re #1: With no other information to go on, I would likely pick Samba for your situation if forced to pick one, simply because samba support in linux is probably better than NFS support in Windows. However, if you have the option, why not support both?
Re #2: Create a new VM to host the storage. Running extra services within XenServer's dom0 is neither recommended nor supported by Citrix.
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Re #1: With no other information to go on, I would likely pick Samba for your situation if forced to pick one, simply because samba support in linux is probably better than NFS support in Windows. However, if you have the option, why not support both?
Re #2: Create a new VM to host the storage. Running extra services within XenServer's dom0 is neither recommended nor supported by Citrix.
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Re #1: With no other information to go on, I would likely pick Samba for your situation if forced to pick one, simply because samba support in linux is probably better than NFS support in Windows. However, if you have the option, why not support both?
Re #2: Create a new VM to host the storage. Running extra services within XenServer's dom0 is neither recommended nor supported by Citrix.
answered Jan 12 '12 at 14:06
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Re #1: With no other information to go on, I would likely pick Samba for your situation if forced to pick one, simply because samba support in linux is probably better than NFS support in Windows. However, if you have the option, why not support both?
Re #2: Create a new VM to host the storage. Running extra services within XenServer's dom0 is neither recommended nor supported by Citrix.
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