Re: [Xen-users] Re: Is Anybody Running Xen in Production Environment

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 08:14:44AM -0700, Matias wrote:
>   
> > Is anybody running Xen in a production environment?
> >     
> Yep, responsible for serving about 80 million requests per day
>   
Me, too. I've been using it for development systems, QA environments, 
and some production services. The instabilities have been due to ongoing 
software development, now that the "install a modified glibc" 
requirements seem to have vanished with the tweaks of the latest kernels 
under RHEL and CentOS.
> > If so what is maintenance like?  Are you constantl
> > having to keep a careful watch?  Does it crash
> > often?  Run out of memory? OR is has it been
> > a very blissful experience and your always confident
> > that it's up and running.
> >     
> I've been quite impressed -- it's never really been a hassle.  Nagios keeps
> an eye on things, and we're running heartbeat on redundant machines to make
> sure that even if something goes pop we're still covered.  Even with all
> that, I can't think of a production failure (even non-customer-impacting)
> that has definitely been Xen's fault.
>   
What are you using to configure your Nagios? I've been working with 
fruity, that seems to be a nice tool but need completion.
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