Storage solution

[hamishbesnia]

Can someone tell me what is the best local storage solution:
partition type, cache type and disk type for
1. Win 2008 running DC;
2 SLES 11 running oracle db.

 

[adamb]

Can someone tell me what is the best local storage solution:
partition type, cache type and disk type for
1. Win 2008 running DC;
2 SLES 11 running oracle db.

Use virtio for both disk and network. For the VM disk cache, stick with cache=none as its default, has solid performance and integrity.

 

[LnxBil]

Additional to that: try to use enterprise grade SSD (disk type). If you want to use snapshots, you should use qcow2 or ZFS (if this is what you meant by partition type). If you do not care about snapshots, you can use LVM, which is the fastest, raw performance device, because there is no filesystem between your vm data and the storage devices.