Questions on allocation of lvm space

[BigTimer]

Hello,

I just wanna know:

i) is it okay to re-allocate how space is divvied up amongst the swap, root and data logical volumes (in the pve volume group) ?
ii) can i create logical volumes of my own?
iii) i tried creating a vm via the web interface and noticed that the hard disk was in qcow format. How may i specify an lvm logical volume instead - preferably without using the command line?
iv) when you have, say, a 2-node cluster, and the master node goes down, do the virtual machines running on it failover automatically to the other node?


Thanks.

 

[tom]

Hello,

I just wanna know:

i) is it okay to re-allocate how space is divvied up amongst the swap, root and data logical volumes (in the pve volume group) ?

what do you wanna change, why?

ii) can i create logical volumes of my own?
iii) i tried creating a vm via the web interface and noticed that the hard disk was in qcow format. How may i specify an lvm logical volume instead - preferably without using the command line?

you should go for 1.4beta - see release notes and especially new Storage Model

iv) when you have, say, a 2-node cluster, and the master node goes down, do the virtual machines running on it failover automatically to the other node?
Thanks.

HA is not implemented yet but we are working on it. in the case you will ask: we do not know when its ready for production use.

 

[BigTimer]

Hey Tom,

Thanks for the fast response. The reason I asked question 1 is because I wanted to do what I mentioned in question 3.

Is 1.4beta OK for production use?

 

[tom]

Hey Tom,

Thanks for the fast response. The reason I asked question 1 is because I wanted to do what I mentioned in question 3.

Is 1.4beta OK for production use?

As its still a beta its not widely used in production - therefore not that much experience.

But we think is more or less ready to go but its up to you if you wanna use a beta version in production. We expect to release the final 1.4 in October 09.