No special settings at all. We are running Xenserver 5.6 (havent upgraded to fp1 yet) on a couple of dual processor 6 core dell servers. The client os is Centos 5.5 64bit with the Xen tools installed. Xen is just configured to use the NAS device as the main storage repository via a nfs...
We have a 8800SAS with 4 SATA drives in it (Raid 6). Running Xen server with the vm stored on the NAS via nfs connection we has a read rate of about 80MB/s.
I have a WD Live TV box which currently is working with a USB drive but I would like something with more capacity and reliability. I have found the following 4 products to consider. Prices are from amazon.co.uk
£220 Netgear Ready Nas NV+
£293 QNAP TS-410 Turbo
£360 Thecus N4100 Pro
£377...