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On 12/18/2013 3:09 AM, Itamar Heim wrote: Well, my original intent was local...But I'd be curious about NFS as well. (and why would it be different?)

On 12/19/2013 1:18 AM, Itamar Heim wrote: Right, but reliable and fast shared storage is a bit expensive for a home lab..Even gig-E isn't all that fast compared to local SATA. Popping out disks and moving them to a new machine isn't that big of a deal...Under ESXi it's just "Add to inventory" and move on...This is more complicated under ovirt, but I don't do it that often, so it's not extremely inconvenient.