Re: [Xen-users] Lookinfg for advices for a XEN Cluster

[Jeff Cronstrom <jeff@xxxxxxx>]

1) Is my idea reasonable? Can we talk about XEN cluster anyway?
1A. The idea is completely reasonable and doable.

2) Where I could find information/tut related to a similar project?
2A. See below

3) What are the requirement for the Live Migration & how it works?
3A. See below

4) Can I install Ubuntu (Gusty) with para-virt on RHEL 5.1 Xen?
4A. You should be able to.

5) Do you have any advices since i'm a little bit Xen n00b? ;)
5A. read read read
Books a good place (http://www.syngress.com/catalog/?pid=4480


Here is a good article about Red Hat Clustering in combination with Xen
VM's. The clustering software manages the live migration of VM's. I have
some VM's running in this fashion from images on a GFS file system and
from physical partitions, it has been working very well to date. The
Clustering Software does a good job managing the VM's and will
automatically migrate running VM's from one physical system to another.
3 - DL385G2 Servers w/4 GB nics, 14GB Memory, Dual FC, all connected to
a MSA1000 Storage Device
http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/08/23/automated-failover-and-recovery-of-virtualized-guests-in-advanced-platform/

Xen management and provisioning tools
http://www.networkinginfo.com/?p=15



Jeff


On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 15:31 +0100, L.M.J. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   I'm looking for tutorials and advices to setup a complete cluster XEN
> solution to reach 99,9% of availability of the applications.
> 
>   My global idea is to get several x86-64 servers (let's say HP DL580 or
> Fujitsu Siemens RX300) and install the same distro on them (let say RHEL
> 5.1 :-/  to be support for SAP or Oracle...)
> 
>   With this adequate supply of servers with the same Dom0 version
> connected to a 4Gb/sec SAN, I would be able to migrate a server from a
> XEN server to another XEN server in case of problem with the first one.
> Here is my question :
> 
>   1) Is my idea reasonable? Can we talk about XEN cluster anyway?
>   2) Where I could find information/tut related to a similar project?
>   3) What are the requirement for the Live Migration & how it works?
>   4) Can I install Ubuntu (Gusty) with para-virt on RHEL 5.1 Xen?
>   5) Do you have any advices since i'm a little bit Xen n00b? ;)
> 
>   Thanks you very much!
> 
>     LMJ
> 
> 
> 
> 
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