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    Create KVM with real LVM volume as hard disk (NOT image!)

    root@proxmox:~# lsmod |grep mpt mptsas 52926 6 mptscsih 36748 1 mptsas mptbase 93999 2 mptsas,mptscsih scsi_transport_sas 35086 1 mptsas Thank You!
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    Create KVM with real LVM volume as hard disk (NOT image!)

    half_life: thank you for tips. We have an INTEL SR2520SAXSR system with Dual Xeon (8 cores sum) 16GB RAM, SAS expander with 6 disks, but unfortunately, when i activate raid mode in bios, Proxmox not found any hard disks, nor the created raid array. (LSI1064E controller) So i must use mdraid, as...
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    Create KVM with real LVM volume as hard disk (NOT image!)

    Yes, it is working now perfectly, but the performance benefits was minimal. (Disk write: XEN (lvm): 45MB/s, KVM (RAW image file): 30MB/s, KVM (lvm): ~ 32-33MB/s) I read a lot of posts on the net, and always praising XEN because of its best IO speed. I know that softraid is not the best...
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    Create KVM with real LVM volume as hard disk (NOT image!)

    Thank You Tom for quick reply! :) Do you mean the: "LVM Groups with Local Backing"section? I'd like to use teh following scenario: 2 additional hard disks (not those which has the Proxmox itself) with one software raid 1 for redundancy, created on this /dev/mdx device a PV/VG/LV and use that...
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    Create KVM with real LVM volume as hard disk (NOT image!)

    Dear all I'd like to ask you, is there a way to use real LV for virtual hard disk for performance considerations? Under Xen 4 the same Win2k3 server with paravirtualized drivers and LV highly outperforms KVM with PV drivers and RAW disk image. The Proxmox web surface only allows disk image...

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