Virtual Machines on Raid: anyone else doing this?

I´m using VirtualMachines with my N40L. Windows 7, Ubuntu and a normal debian wheezy.

So... The performance is absolutely ok. I do not run all three VM´s at the same time. Usually only one at a time. But two small and light VM´s should work without any problem.

Btw. in this machine I only have 4 GB of RAM. W7 runs with 2GB.

Zitat von WastlJ

I'm using VirtualMachines with my N40L.

Baremetal or VirtualBox - what are you guys talking about?

We are under Forum >> Installation >> Plugins. Therefore I am talking about the Virtualbox Plugin and VM´s running under phpvirtualbox

No, not really. Got some configuration errors but all because of myself playing around with it
Working like a charm.

You defenitely get more help HERE when using OMV and the virtualbox-plugin than using docker and Virtualbox. Since I do not use docker -yet-, I cannot say if somwhere else you would get more infos about that. If you have any problem, feel free to create a thread

Well, Docker differs much from Virtualbox. Docker is a daemon that packs one (!) process into a encapsulated container with its own filesystem etc. Docker is limited to exactly one process per container (okay, you can probably run more with screen, but thats not the purpose of it). This means you need multiple Containers if you want to run a dedicated Website (one Container) and the corresponding Database has to run in a second Container.

VirtualBox on the other hand is a full, software based virtualization system which allows to virtualize full systems.

Greetings
David

PS: And I would like to see more of Docker on OpenMediaVault

Zitat von davidh2k

Well, Docker differs much from Virtualbox. Docker is a daemon that packs one (!) process into a encapsulated container with its own filesystem etc. Docker is limited to exactly one process per container (okay, you can probably run more with screen, but thats not the purpose of it). This means you need multiple Containers if you want to run a dedicated Website (one Container) and the corresponding Database has to run in a second Container.

This isn't exactly accurate. You can run an entire LAMP server in a docker container. Best practices say don't do it, but you can quite easily.

I have not doubted that, but it is not designed for that.

Greetings
David

Thats true... this kind of relates: https://github.com/phusion/bas…e-stock-ubuntu-base-image

I've started using it for all my base images.

Zitat von MountainDew

Hello,

I have an HP microserver with 16GB of server memory and 6x4TB raid 5 (one is kept for a hotspare).
I plan to run virtual machines from this setup but I'm unsure of the performance of running VMs on the raid. For those that have tried or are doing it, I would appreciate your input. I plan to run PFSense and maybe one other lightweight virtual machine.

• Would you recommend it?
• Was the performance of the VM(s) satisfactory?
• What VMs were you running? This is important as some systems are resource hogs compared to others.

I use raid 10 for write performance over raid 5 since I spin up a lot of test VMs frequently. If your VMs are not going to be doing a lot of writing then raid 5 should be fine for you. PfSense for example as you mentioned should be fine on raid 5 since it would be doing more reading than writing. I am happy with my VMs using VirtualBox on OMV. They perform as expected. Just offering my 2 cents.