[plug] Cheap iSCSI .vs. NFS for VM's

[Tim White]

On 24/01/13 14:11, Adon Metcalfe wrote:
> We'll be using ceph soon too, but for vms we just put them all on 
> local storage and make them stateless (user writable data all goes to 
> remote cephfs fileshare, databases stored locally but backed up 
> frequently via bacula). That's the cheapest layout we found for high 
> performance VM's while still having redundancy (if we lose a server 
> coz their stateless its like a 15 minute rebuild).

Can you tell me more about what you mean by stateless?

As in, its an imaged server that has a config and runs, so if it dies 
it's just the users state that is lost?

Tim