v.10 – Testing Configurations

Note: If you’re here for Load Balancing for Developers or Reasons You Need File Virtualization (both iterated on my team page), I took this week and last off to cover v.10, check back next week. Forest, Trees… The new functionality in v.10 is so expansive that it’s easy to get buried and not see the larger picture right away. That’s kind of what happened to me when this blog post came about. Originally I was going to write about using Logical Volume Management (lvm) for testing configurations, but honestly the release of evaluation licensing makes for some other...

v.10 – Logical Volume Manager

One of the cool new items in v.10 is the use of a logical volume manager (LVM) to create and manage multiple “partitions”. This is the last time I will use the term “partition” to refer to v.10 disk space in this post, since partitioning was the way things were done prior to v.10, moving forward we use the volume system. Considerations The first thing to do is decide if LVM is the right tool for you. Like most massively cool technologies, it supersedes the system it is designed to replace. While we do our best to provide...