Hypervisor load on local disks

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Published on 2010-04-22T18:39:11Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 18:43 UTC
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Hi,

What is the I/O load on the local disk system for the host OS in XenServer ? I can't find this info anywhere. As we have a SAN for the VMs themselves, can we get away with cheap controller / SATA disk in raid-1 for the hypervisor ? We won't boot from the SAN as it seems prone to problems.

Thanks,

Chris

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