Almost exactly two years ago, I released the first tutorial for building an HA platform for KVM VMs. In that time, I have learned a lot, created some tools to simplify management and refined the design to handle corner-cases seen in the field. Today, the culmination of that learning is summed up in the "2nd Edition" of that tutorial, now called "AN!Cluster Tutorial 2". https://alteeve.ca/w/AN!Cluster_Tutorial_2 These HA KVM platforms have been in production for over two years now in facilities all over the world; Universities, municipal governments, corporate DCs, manufacturing facilities, etc. I've gotten wonderful feedback from users and all that real-world experience has been integrated into this new tutorial. As always, everything is 100% open source and free-as-in-beer! The major changes are: * SELinux and iptables are enabled and used. * Numerous slight changes made to the OS and cluster stack configuration to provide better corner-case fault handling. * Architecture refinements; ** Redundant PSUs, UPSes and fence methods emphasized. ** Monitoring multiple UPSes added via modified apcupsd ** Detailed monitoring of LSI-based RAID controllers and drives ** Discussion on hardware considerations for VM performance based on anticipated work loads * Naming convention changes to support the new AN!CDB dashboard[1] ** New alert system covered with fault and notable event alerting * Wider array of guest OSes are covered; ** Windows 7 ** Windows 8 ** Windows 2008 R2 ** Windows 2012 ** Solaris 11 ** FreeBSD 9 ** RHEL 6 ** SLES 11 Beyond that, the formatting of the tutorial itself has been slightly modified. I do think it is the easiest to follow tutorial I have yet been able to produce. I am very proud of this one! :D As always, feedback is always very much appreciated. Everything from typos/grammar mistakes, functional problems or anything else is very valuable. I take all the feedback I get and use it to helping make the tutorials better. Enjoy! Digimer, who now can now start the next tutorial in earnest! 1. https://alteeve.ca/w/AN!CDB -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education?
Thank you very much for this, looks like a good read. Will provide feedback :) Aly On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote:> Almost exactly two years ago, I released the first tutorial for building > an HA platform for KVM VMs. In that time, I have learned a lot, created > some tools to simplify management and refined the design to handle > corner-cases seen in the field. > > Today, the culmination of that learning is summed up in the "2nd > Edition" of that tutorial, now called "AN!Cluster Tutorial 2". > > https://alteeve.ca/w/AN!Cluster_Tutorial_2 > > These HA KVM platforms have been in production for over two years now in > facilities all over the world; Universities, municipal governments, > corporate DCs, manufacturing facilities, etc. I've gotten wonderful > feedback from users and all that real-world experience has been > integrated into this new tutorial. > > As always, everything is 100% open source and free-as-in-beer! > > The major changes are: > > * SELinux and iptables are enabled and used. > * Numerous slight changes made to the OS and cluster stack configuration > to provide better corner-case fault handling. > > * Architecture refinements; > ** Redundant PSUs, UPSes and fence methods emphasized. > ** Monitoring multiple UPSes added via modified apcupsd > ** Detailed monitoring of LSI-based RAID controllers and drives > ** Discussion on hardware considerations for VM performance based on > anticipated work loads > > * Naming convention changes to support the new AN!CDB dashboard[1] > ** New alert system covered with fault and notable event alerting > > * Wider array of guest OSes are covered; > ** Windows 7 > ** Windows 8 > ** Windows 2008 R2 > ** Windows 2012 > ** Solaris 11 > ** FreeBSD 9 > ** RHEL 6 > ** SLES 11 > > Beyond that, the formatting of the tutorial itself has been slightly > modified. I do think it is the easiest to follow tutorial I have yet > been able to produce. I am very proud of this one! :D > > As always, feedback is always very much appreciated. Everything from > typos/grammar mistakes, functional problems or anything else is very > valuable. I take all the feedback I get and use it to helping make the > tutorials better. > > Enjoy! > > Digimer, who now can now start the next tutorial in earnest! > > 1. https://alteeve.ca/w/AN!CDB > > -- > Digimer > Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ > What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without > access to education? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20140106/7e26fa50/attachment-0002.html>
Awesome, I'll be very happy for your feedback! On 06/01/14 11:20 AM, Aly Khimji wrote:> Thank you very much for this, looks like a good read. > Will provide feedback :) > > Aly > > > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca > <mailto:lists at alteeve.ca>> wrote: > > Almost exactly two years ago, I released the first tutorial for building > an HA platform for KVM VMs. In that time, I have learned a lot, created > some tools to simplify management and refined the design to handle > corner-cases seen in the field. > > Today, the culmination of that learning is summed up in the "2nd > Edition" of that tutorial, now called "AN!Cluster Tutorial 2". > > https://alteeve.ca/w/AN!Cluster_Tutorial_2 > > These HA KVM platforms have been in production for over two years now in > facilities all over the world; Universities, municipal governments, > corporate DCs, manufacturing facilities, etc. I've gotten wonderful > feedback from users and all that real-world experience has been > integrated into this new tutorial. > > As always, everything is 100% open source and free-as-in-beer! > > The major changes are: > > * SELinux and iptables are enabled and used. > * Numerous slight changes made to the OS and cluster stack configuration > to provide better corner-case fault handling. > > * Architecture refinements; > ** Redundant PSUs, UPSes and fence methods emphasized. > ** Monitoring multiple UPSes added via modified apcupsd > ** Detailed monitoring of LSI-based RAID controllers and drives > ** Discussion on hardware considerations for VM performance based on > anticipated work loads > > * Naming convention changes to support the new AN!CDB dashboard[1] > ** New alert system covered with fault and notable event alerting > > * Wider array of guest OSes are covered; > ** Windows 7 > ** Windows 8 > ** Windows 2008 R2 > ** Windows 2012 > ** Solaris 11 > ** FreeBSD 9 > ** RHEL 6 > ** SLES 11 > > Beyond that, the formatting of the tutorial itself has been slightly > modified. I do think it is the easiest to follow tutorial I have yet > been able to produce. I am very proud of this one! :D > > As always, feedback is always very much appreciated. Everything from > typos/grammar mistakes, functional problems or anything else is very > valuable. I take all the feedback I get and use it to helping make the > tutorials better. > > Enjoy! > > Digimer, who now can now start the next tutorial in earnest! > > 1. https://alteeve.ca/w/AN!CDB > > -- > Digimer > Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ > What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without > access to education? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org <mailto:CentOS-virt at centos.org> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >-- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education?