Nagios is an interesting idea, and since it only takes a single
command line to migrate a domU, I guess it would work well. My thoughts are
load balancing Xen go beyond moving a high load domU to a load load dom0. A
couple factors to consider are how long a domU sustains high CPU usage before
it warrants moving and historical CPU usage of the potential dom0 target. You
don’t want your cluster bouncing domU’s around every minute trying to achieve a
perfect balance.
--Brent
From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ofek Doron
[Penguin IT]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 7:44 PM
To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Automatic Loadbalancing via migration --live
You can use nagios (or something
like) to monitor Dom0 and DomU. when you have a performance (or failure)
issue you can move the DomU to other Dom0 (use the external commands in the
nagios server).
(if it will be in a mission
critical env - you may need an High Availability service for the nagios)
It is not just for load balancing,
you can use it for High Availability of VM's, DRP, BCP etc.
We tested a few configuration in
our lab in the last week , looks good.
- doron