WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-users

Re: [Xen-users] Shared SAN disk LUN between 2 servers and migration prob

To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Shared SAN disk LUN between 2 servers and migration problem
From: John Madden <jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:06:39 -0400
Cc: Pekka.Panula@xxxxxxxx, Ferenc Wagner <wferi@xxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:07:21 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <87od1k28r0.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-users@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <OF31C40FAE.D7C8EE82-ONC22574E4.002B028F-C22574E4.002C639F@xxxxxxxx> <87od1k28r0.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
User-agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405)
> > Do i need one more layer to setup migration working? It seems now that if
> > i migrate between servers i get filesystem corruptions.
>
> I run a similar setup but for PV linux guests.  (Live) migration works.
> I've never tried it with HVM, but can't see any obvious obstacle.

Agreed.  No cluster filesystems or extra locking (DLM, etc.) is needed for 
live migration itself to work in a shared-disk scenario.  I've never tried it 
with HVM either though. 

John



-- 
John Madden
Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users