| Best way to access hardware RAID arrays from inside a VE? Bind mount? [message #37660] |
Wed, 07 October 2009 15:20  |
batfastad
Messages: 15
Registered: September 2009
Location: London, UK
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Hi everyone
I'm planning to consolidate a couple of servers into a new OpenVZ box.
The host will have a 3Ware 9690SA-8i RAID card taken from our current shared files box.
One of the VEs will be running Samba/Netatalk to create shares from a RAID array connected to the host.
What's the best way of doing this from a performance/stability point of view?
1) I was reading through the Bind Mounts (http://wiki.openvz.org/Bind_mounts) article in the wiki. Is that the best way?
2) Are there any "gotchas" I should look out for when using Samba/Netatalk within a VE and frequently accessing storage connected to the host?
3) The 2nd VE will be a Zimbra mail installation and that will also need access to a RAID 1 array connected to the host's RAID card.
Zimbra runs a big MySQL instance and it gets complex to change storage paths within Zimbra.
Can I/should I store a whole VE on the RAID 1 array partition rather than on the internal boot drive?
Or would that cause performance problems?
Hope that all makes sense, thanks in advance
Cheers, B
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