[ale] Xenserver on my HP N40L

[jdp at algoloma.com (JD)]

Why do passthru?  Just make the storage you need for the VM sit on the RAID5
storage of the hostOS --- or use NFS to access any extra storage from the host
as needed.

Passthru is for the PCI-whatever cards and requires specific hardware support -
VT-d, right?  You won't be accessing mdadm RAID devices directly from the client.

On 03/17/2014 03:51 PM, Preston wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> I had OpenMediaVault running on my server for quite a while, but the SD card
> took a dive.  I have backups of it using fsarchiver that I will use to put
> things back to the way I had when I decide on what course of action I should take.
> 
> Given this "opportunity" I decided to install Xenserver on an internal USB
> drive.  I have the (4) 3TB HDD previously configured as a software RAID5 (from
> within my previous OMV setup) that I checked with a livecd of Peppermint I had
> laying around after apt-get'ing mdadm (all is well).
> 
> So how do I add/passthru the existing RAID5 so it can be mounted by my VM's? 
> I've seen references to "sr-locate", but I've never done this and _really_ don't
> want to fubar my RAID5 data.
> 
> When all is said and done, I would like to have Xenserver running with a couple
> VMs and the internal RAID5 visible to the VMs.  Anyone have experience with raw
> disk access through Xenserver?  I'm guessing that's what I would need to do.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Preston
> 
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