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RE: [Xen-users] How to make network storage high available?

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Subject: RE: [Xen-users] How to make network storage high available?
From: "Marlier, Ian" <ian.marlier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:21:41 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Dominik Klein
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 9:59 AM
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] How to make network storage high available?
> 
> > I'm testing with 2 server with drbd 0.8 in actice-active 
> mode and clvm
> > for this. But drbd is indeed complex to handle.
> 
>  From what I read, active/active does not seem to be very stable yet.
> 
> > You don't need gfs or ocfs2 if you only ever have one 
> domain accessing
> > an fs.
> 
> I think I understood that in the meantime.

Unless I really missed something, though, you're going to need ocfs2 or
gfs2 if you're looking to do live migration of xen machines from one
host to another...

But then, as I said, I might have missed something...

- Ian

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