[ovirt-users] Maximum storage per VM?

[Yaniv Kaul]

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 10:24 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov <dchebota at gmu.edu> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I'm trying to find any info on how much storage I can attach to a VM.
>
> Is there a recommended/maximum for number of disks and maximum disk size?
>

Disk count depends on the interface - IDE - very few, virtio- 20-something
(depends on the number of PCI slots available), virtio-SCSI - more.
What is the use case?


>
> I'm using GlusterFS as backend storage for the cluster.
>
> The VM uses LVM (/w striped volumes) to manage attached disks.
>

Aren't you having layers over layers over layers? Is that the optimal
arrangement?
(Again, would be interesting to understand the use case to better provide
information).
Y.


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