[ale] VM guest partitioning practices

Chuck Payne terrorpup at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 12:04:23 EST 2014


One thing I didn't put on there, if I am doing anything less than 100GB, it
a cow .img file ( QEMU/KVM ), anything bigger than that, I do a lvm slice
and use the lvm like a real hard drive, I get better performance doing
that, we have 10 mysql servers that run great, better than when we used
Xen.

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 11:58 AM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> > On Dec 9, 2014 11:47 AM, "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I've been asked to research how others layout their filesystems in
> virtual
> >> machines. I long ago decided it wasn't worth splitting stuff like /var
> off
> >> onto its own partition. I particularly don't think it's necessary in a
> >> virtual machine. But I need to get some other opinions before I can be
> >> validated in mine.
> >>
> >> So, how do you guys partition the filesystems in your virtual machines?
> >>
> >> --
> >> James Sumners
> >> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
>
> Keep in mind that some security practices require separate
> filesystems. DoD STIGs, at least.
>
> Leam
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