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- Add a warning for local SRs: devices or partitions get formatted.
- ZFS SR: remove extraneous tip (mentioned twice) and refer users to
docs after giving them optimization tips.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Verschelde <[email protected]>
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A local SR is using a disk or a partition of your local disk, to create a space for your VM disks. Local LVM will use logical volumes, whereas Local EXT will create an `ext4` filesystem and put `.vhd` files in it.
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The concept is simple: tell XCP-ng which disk or partition you want to use, and it will do everything for you! Don't do anything yourself (no need to create a logical volume or a filesystem)
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The concept is simple: tell XCP-ng which disk or partition you want to use, and it will do everything for you! Don't do anything yourself (no need to create a logical volume or a filesystem).
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:::warning
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As XCP-ng will handle everything for you, be aware that the device or partition will be formatted.
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* Don't create a SR over a device or partition that contains important data.
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* If you want to attach an existing SR to your pool, don't create a new local SR over it, else your virtual disks will be deleted. Instead, use the `xe sr-attach` command.
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In [Xen Orchestra](management.md#xen-orchestra):
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