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

[Mike Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:39:52 +1000
"James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 
> > Just adding to the list of happy customers. I run about 70-80
> > SUSE domains on openSUSE 10.2, similarly hosting various
> > development,
> QA
> > testing, demonstration and both critical and non-critical production
> > servers. Only problems we've had so far have been some hardware
> > issues totally non-Xen related and some problems with our own
> > software, again not Xen related.
> > 
> 
> Just out of interest, did running Xen make the diagnosis of these
> issues any harder? Particularly the hardware side of things?
> 
> I've just set up Xen 3.1.0 on a HP DL385, running Debian Etch in
> Dom0, a spam filter (Debian Etch), a secondary nameserver (Debian
> Etch), a second windows domain controller (Windows 2K3R2E), a small
> business server (Windows SBS2K3R2S), and a web server (Windows
> 2K3R2E). Currently Dom0 isn't running any of HP's (closed source
> binary afaik) monitoring stuff, and I'm not sure if there is going to
> be any value in trying to make it go...
> 
> I guess my concern is that if a disk, fan, psu, or anything else fails
> or something, I don't yet have the tools to know about it (server will
> be in a colo facility). Are binary-only modules supported in Dom0? I
> suspect that there might be some problems...
> 

In our particular case Xen has made no difference in this respect.
We're running this on Dell servers and all of the tools available to us
in our non-Xen Linux environments are available on our Xen servers too.
Unfortunately I don't know about the HP stuff you mention.

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Mike
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