Closing Suggestions
This might seem like a bewildering, or even excessive, variety of storage options, but all of these have their places—be it in a hosting environment, or on the desktop, or in a storage pool for utility computing. The recommendations we've made in this chapter are a start, but in the end the best advice we can offer is to try all of these and see what works best. Find the right trade-off between ease of administration and scalability.
Finally, you can combine and extend many of these options. For example, the Xen LiveCD uses flat images with LVM snapshots. Depending on your application, the best solution might be simple filesystem images or a combination of software RAID and LVM. Keep experimenting and see what fits best. These ...
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