[Xen-users] HA problem

["Gustavo Pimentel" <gustavo.pimentel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

 

I need you help for a HA problem. I have to implement a equipment with HA solution based on 2 servers, I’m sure you could help.

 

The basic idea is something like this:

·         On both servers I was thinking to install Debian 6.0.1 “Squeeze” with xen 4.1.0 hypervisor and xen-tools.

·         Creating a virtual machine on Server 1 and replicated to Server 2 only for the first time.

·         Running the virtual machine on Server 1 and try through remus and DRDB send checkpoints and disk modifications to Server 2 and hope a virtual machine be created on Server 2 on hot standby role.

·         Using HeartBeat on both servers I could detect a failure on each server.

·         If the Virtual Machine on Server 1 or the Server 1 itself suffer some kind of failure, I would expected the virtual machine on Server 2 change from hot standby to online role.

·         Meanwhile if the Server 1 recovers from the failure, it should now receive the checkpoints and disk modification from Server 2 becoming this assuming the hot standby role.

 

My questions:

·         It’s possible to do this with remus and DRDB? On http://nss.cs.ubc.ca/remus/doc.html webpage it seems so. But can anyone confirm that?

·         For now this test will be performed on a computer with CPU Intel Pentium 4 at 3.2GHz (32bits) without KVM support and with 2GB of RAM. Does anyone knows if this type of machine could has problems with xen?

 

 

 

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