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On July 2, 2017 7:36:02 PM GMT+02:00, "Taiidan@×××.com" <Taiidan@×××.com> wrote: |
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>On 07/02/2017 02:51 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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>> On July 1, 2017 11:23:06 PM GMT+02:00, "Taiidan@×××.com" |
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><Taiidan@×××.com> wrote: |
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>>> I am wondering if anyone has tried this, apparently several LSI |
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>>> controllers support portioning out drives to VF's so the guest sees |
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>>> controller with those drives attached to it. |
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>>> What was your experience like? and what controllers did you use? |
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>>> - Thanks |
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>> I am wondering when I would want this? |
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>So you only need one HBA/RAID card per system if you want more than one |
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>VM with quality performance. |
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>It'll always be faster than an emulated disk. |
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Never noticed any performance issues. Using Xen and raw disk format to the VMs. |
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>> Either the VM needs a fraction of a single disk. Or it needs multiple |
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>disks. |
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>> For the latter case, I prefer to pass an entire HBA. |
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>Which one do you have and does yours support FLR? |
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Using a Supermicro card based on a LSI3008 chipset and dual expander backplane. |
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I can always add a second HBA of I need more bandwidth. |
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What is FLR? Googling that gives me a lot of non IT related results. |
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Joost |
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