--Alternative_=_Boundary_=_1401325891 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Um I missed the earlier part of this thread but I can tell you from experie= nce not using shared storage of one kind or an other for virtualization is = always a mistake you will regret latter. Its a common (almost default) mist= ake people who are just getting started with virtualization make. Fibre (wh= ich includes optical fiber and copper using the same protocols ) channel at= best or a pNFS or Gluster solution will server you a lot better as long as= you have a decent number of spindles and a lot of ram for cache on the sto= rage servers/controllers. <br><br><span style=3D"font-family:Prelude,= Verdana, san-serif;"><br><br></span><span id=3D"signature"><div style=3D"f= ont-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;color: #999999;">-- Sent fro= m my HP Pre3</div><br></span><span style=3D"color:navy; font-family:Prelude= , Verdana, san-serif; "><hr align=3D"left" style=3D"width:75%">On May 28, 2= 014 20:51, Grant Tailor <therealwebguru@gmail.com> wrote: <br><br></s= pan><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div><div>I plan NOT to use shared storage or net= work storage and will be using local storage of hosts to provision storage = for VMs<br><br></div>How do i do this?<br><br></div>For example in this scr= eenshot, no way to configure local storage<br> <br></div>Thanks<br></div> --Alternative_=_Boundary_=_1401325891--