Re: [Xen-users] Lookinfg for advices for a XEN Cluster

["L.M.J" <linuxmasterjedi@xxxxxxx>]

Le Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:42:36 -0500,
Jeff Cronstrom <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> 1) Is my idea reasonable? Can we talk about XEN cluster anyway?
> 1A. The idea is completely reasonable and doable.
> 
> 2) Where I could find information/tut related to a similar project?
> 2A. See below
> 
> 3) What are the requirement for the Live Migration & how it works?
> 3A. See below
> 
> 4) Can I install Ubuntu (Gusty) with para-virt on RHEL 5.1 Xen?
> 4A. You should be able to.
> 
> 5) Do you have any advices since i'm a little bit Xen n00b? ;)
> 5A. read read read
> Books a good place (http://www.syngress.com/catalog/?pid=4480
> 
> 
> Here is a good article about Red Hat Clustering in combination with Xen
> VM's. The clustering software manages the live migration of VM's. I have
> some VM's running in this fashion from images on a GFS file system and
> from physical partitions, it has been working very well to date. The
> Clustering Software does a good job managing the VM's and will
> automatically migrate running VM's from one physical system to another.
> 3 - DL385G2 Servers w/4 GB nics, 14GB Memory, Dual FC, all connected to
> a MSA1000 Storage Device
> http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/08/23/automated-failover-and-recovery-of-virtualized-guests-in-advanced-platform/
> 
> Xen management and provisioning tools
> http://www.networkinginfo.com/?p=15
> 
> 
> 
> Jeff

Hello Jeff & Thanks you for your perfect answer. Gonna check out the links and 
understand how to deal with.
I will bug you if I have more questions soon :-P

  CU! 

> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 15:31 +0100, L.M.J. wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> >   I'm looking for tutorials and advices to setup a complete cluster XEN
> > solution to reach 99,9% of availability of the applications.
> > 
> >   My global idea is to get several x86-64 servers (let's say HP DL580 or
> > Fujitsu Siemens RX300) and install the same distro on them (let say RHEL
> > 5.1 :-/  to be support for SAP or Oracle...)
> > 
> >   With this adequate supply of servers with the same Dom0 version
> > connected to a 4Gb/sec SAN, I would be able to migrate a server from a
> > XEN server to another XEN server in case of problem with the first one.
> > Here is my question :
> > 
> >   1) Is my idea reasonable? Can we talk about XEN cluster anyway?
> >   2) Where I could find information/tut related to a similar project?
> >   3) What are the requirement for the Live Migration & how it works?
> >   4) Can I install Ubuntu (Gusty) with para-virt on RHEL 5.1 Xen?
> >   5) Do you have any advices since i'm a little bit Xen n00b? ;)
> > 
> >   Thanks you very much!
> > 
> >     LMJ

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