On Friday 27 October 2006 09:02, Mike McGrath wrote: > On 10/27/06, Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > so what id like to do as far as the xen guest goes. and we should > > probably do this with all production xen guests. is create a snapshot of > > the lvm volume once the system is up and running and ready. so if the > > chroot explodes again we put the snapshot in place start the instance > > and things are back in a matter of minutes. we would have a > > pre-configured system ready to roll. > > > > thoughts? opinions? objections? > > I'm kind of in the boat that we should just use large files and skip > the partition all together, that way its an scp or a cp away from > having another guest. > > -Mike That works also. one issue we would face is storing the xen guest images. that will get big fast. But i do really like the idea. we could do something to help us manage bottlenecks also. bring up an app server image when needed and some quick configuration we have a new app server. or proxy or any of our other services. -- Dennis Gilmore, RHCE Proud Australian
