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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:40:18 -0400
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Subject: Re: What's everyone using for primary storage?
From: Kirk Jantzer <kirk.jantzer@gmail.com>
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Thanks for the reply Matt. What are you seeing as the common platform for
these shared storage setups?


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Mathias Mullins <
mathias.mullins@citrix.com> wrote:

> Hey Kirk,
>
> Majority of our customers are using shared storage. It's actually a very
> low percentage that are using Local storage because it basically negates
> all high Availability and eliminates a lot of the useful features in
> CloudStack.
>
> Local storage is usually what I refer to as "Use it and Forget it" because
> if you lose the system you can forget getting the VM back. part of the
> risk, but the cheaper cost is the obvious reward. most of the local storage
> environments I have seen are small cluster, small workload environments
> that can afford to back those environments up regularly.
>
> The large scale 1,000's of VMs you are about 97% likely IMO going to see
> shared storage.
>
> Thank you,
> Matt
>
> On Mar 14, 2013, at 11:28 AM, "Kirk Jantzer" <kirk.jantzer@gmail.com
> <mailto:kirk.jantzer@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> For my testing, because of available resources, I chose local storage.
> However, shared storage (like GlusterFS or the like) is appealing. What are
> you using? Why did you chose what you're using? How many instances are you
> running? etc.
> Thanks!!
>


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