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Re: [Xen-devel] XEN migration architecture question

To: Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] XEN migration architecture question
From: "B.G. Bruce" <bgb@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:28:53 -0400
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Interesting ....
So, what are you using in DOM0 as a watchdog to make sure all the proper
domU domains are up and functional?  Or how do you go about this?

Brian.


On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 17:56, Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote:
> One thing I found fairly easy to setup for self-migration, was to use 
> software RAID-1 (mirroring) to iSCSI targets on the original and 
> destination hosts. When its time to migrate, I add the remote iSCSI disk 
> to the RAID-1 array, and when that has synced up 100%, I self-migrate 
> there. You can either run your iSCSI (or GNBD haven't tried that) 
> targets in dom0, or you can run them in separate domUs (in my 
> implementation, you will first fire off a bootstrap of a small 
> iSCSI-server domain to the remote host, as my dom0 is not allowed to 
> include dangerous stuff such as a TPC/IP stack and an iSCSI server).
> 
> That gives me live disk-migration using a simple shell-script.
> 
> Jacob
> 
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