Jeremy Utley
2006-Nov-27 20:54 UTC
[Fedora-xen] Need some setup pointers for using Xen in a HA system
Hello to everyone on the list. We''re looking at making our datacenter monitoring system (traffic graphs, nagios, etc) run under Xen so a machine failure doesn''t kill off our entire monitoring system. Right now, all our monitoring runs on a single machine, so if that fails, we''re dead in the water, which is why we want to do this. Here''s what we''ve thought of so far. 2 identical machines running Xen-enabled All monitoring services running within domU Shared filesystem provided by GFS (Sun T3 array connected to both machines with a brocade switch) domU root filesystem is a loopback-style EXT3 on the GFS filesystem The sticky point is getting set up so that we can move the domU from one machine to the other in a live migration scenario, or activate on the other machine in the case of a crash. In the second case (crash), we''d like to automate the process so it will automatically come up properly. The distro in use for both dom0 and domU is planned to be FC6. Can any of you who have done this type of thing in a real-life scenario think of anything I''ve missed, or any issues with what we''re thinking? Especially suggestions for automating in the case of a crash would be welcome! Thanks for any input any of you can give! Jeremy