Re: [Xen-users] as promised description of my XEN HA setup

[Bart Coninckx <bart.coninckx@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 03 July 2010 14:30:12 Frank S Fejes III wrote:
> This is fascinating because it is almost exactly what I have been
> doing (though the design has waffled between a single highly redundant
> single storage server and two DRBD-redundant storage servers).  We use
> Dell 5448 switches instead of the procurve, crossover 10gbit between
> the two DRBD machines, and also add offsite DRBD replication, but
> otherwise it's the same design. Oh, and I use heartbeat over pacemaker
> because it's so easy. :)

Hi Frank,

thank you. Actually, I should correct myself: it is Heartbeat, but with the 
CRM. 

> IMO this a very logical approach that is both supportable and
> scalable.  The only real trick in my experience is getting the
> initiator multipath device configuration handled automatically as part
> of the IET lun provisioning process.

Good point. Up till now I do this by hand, following a written procedure, but 
it should not be a big deal to code this is bash. Only would make sense with 
fast adding guests though.

> Well done!  Hopefully others can share their own designs and experiences.
> 
> --frank

thx again, looking forward to other ideas. 

B.

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