Vmware server and LVM
I wanted to store my VMs on LVM with each partition on a separate Logical Volume (LV) and the MBR stored in the vmx file. It looks like I can do this with Xen, but vmware doesn't even allow you to select LVM devices. I tried putting in a full path, but it just says "Unable to determine the bus type of device /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-base_guest". This is on a Centos4 host. Boo vmware.
The nice thing about putting this on LVM is that each LVM LV is treated as a separate drive by the disk accounting subsystem in Linux so that you can see how much activity each VM is generating. I guess I'll just have to monitor each VM independently... :-/
Tags: centos, lvm, vmware, xen
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