similar to: cLVM on Debian/Lenny

Hi, I''m curious about how you guys deal with big virtualization installations. To this date we only dealt with a small number of VM''s (~10)on not too big hardware (2xquad xeons+16GB ram). As I''m the "storage guy" I find it quite convenient to present to the dom0s one LUN per VM that makes live migration possible but without the cluster file system or cLVM

Please tell me if I am wrong : Xen needs LVM to perform domU snapshots and snapshots must be performed by dom0. By the way, a LVM volume group should not be used by more that one kernel at the same time. So if we use a SAN storage, one volume group should be activated on only one server and deactivated on the others. But if we do that, it should not be possible to perform live migration of

Hi. I''m using Xen on RHEL cluster, and I have strange problems. I gave raw volumes from storage to Xen virtual machines. With windows, I have a problem that nodes don''t see the volume as same one.... for example: clusternode1# clusvcadm -d vm:winxp clusternode1# dd if=/dev/mapper/winxp of=/node1winxp clusternode2# dd if=/dev/mapper/winxp of=/node2winxp clusternode3# dd

Hi, I get this error when i try to start clvm (debian lenny) : This is a clvm version with openais # /etc/init.d/clvm restart Deactivating VG ::. Stopping Cluster LVM Daemon: clvm. Starting Cluster LVM Daemon: clvmCLVMD[86475770]: Mar 8 11:25:27 CLVMD started CLVMD[86475770]: Mar 8 11:25:27 Our local node id is -1062730132 CLVMD[86475770]: Mar 8 11:25:27 Add_internal_client, fd = 7

I'm desparately looking for more ideas on how to debug what's going on with our CLVM cluster. Background: 4 node "cluster"-- machines are Dell blades with Dell M6220/M6348 switches. Sole purpose of Cluster Suite tools is to use CLVM against an iSCSI storage array. Machines are running CentOS 5.8 with the Xen kernels. These blades host various VMs for a project. The iSCSI

Can anybody tell me if it makes a difference if domU''s have separate LVM volume groups? For instance, the Xen User Manual ( http://tx.downloads.xensource.com/downloads/docs/user/#SECTION03330000000000000000) says, when setting up a domU''s disks with LVM, to do a vgcreate vg /dev/sda10 Should each domU have it''s own volume group, or can all the domU''s share

Hi Everyone, I am going to get a storage server which will be connected to my Xen hosts via iSCSI/Ethernet. I wish to use LVM for the DomU disks. The storage server will have a RAID10 array, and 2 Xen hosts will connect to this (Each will have a 50% share of the RAID10 array, space wise). What is the best way to go about this? Should I: a) Split the RAID10 array into 2 partition on the

Hi. Today I have updated my cluster installation with the version cman-2.0.115-1 through yum update. When I have started the cman service , it fails. If I execute cman_tool debug I get the following error : [CMAN ] CMAN 2.0.115 (built Sep 16 2009 12:28:10) started aisexec: symbol lookup error: /usr/libexec/lcrso/service_cman.lcrso: undefined symbol:

Hi. The short story... Rush job, never done clustered file systems before, vlan didn't support multicast. Thus I ended up with drbd working ok between the two servers but cman / gfs2 not working, resulting in what was meant to be a drbd primary/primary cluster being a primary/secondary cluster until the vlan could be fixed with gfs only mounted on the one server. I got the single server

I'm trying to set up SAN-based shared storage in KVM, key word being "shared" across multiple KVM servers for a) live migration and b) clustering purposes. But it's surprisingly sparsely documented. For starters, what type of pool should I be using?

I currently have a few CentOS 5.2 based Xen clusters at different sites. These are built around a group of 3 or more Xen nodes (blades) and some sort of shared storage (FC or iSCSI) carved up by LVM and allocated to the domUs. I am "managing" the shared storage (from the dom0 perspective) using cman+clvmd, so that changes to the LVs (rename/resize/create/delete/etc) are

Hi, We are planning to have LVM being used over a network of 3 h/w machines(500 GB Disk each) Each hardware machine will have 2-3 domUs. Can we store these domUs as a Logical Volumes stored across Network of these 3 machines? Can one DomU exceed the 500 GB (physical drive size) and store say 1 TB of data across the networked Physical Volumes? Has anyone done this before? Thanks and regards,

Hi All, just a quick question I could not figure out. Is there a way to export a PCI device to multiple VMs (para) keeping it available to dom0? Xen version is 3.0.4. Thanks, Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

Hi, I am running Xen 3.0.2 in bridged networking on RHEL4. Everything seems to be working nicely, apart from a worrying issue. I can ping from Dom0 -> DomUs okay. I can ping from DomUs -> Dom0 okay. HOWEVER. I cannot ping DomU -> DomU. --- # ping xxx.xxx.xxx.248 Do you want to ping broadcast? Then -b --- Even when I try with the -b switch, I get no joy. Thoughts? TIA! Y.

Hi all, could somebody point me to what is considered a sound way to offer Xen guests on a two node DRBD cluster in combination with Pacemaker? I prefer block devices over images for the DomU''s. I understand that for live migration DRBD 8.3 is needed, but I''m not sure as to what kind of resource agents/technologies are advised (LVM,cLVM, ...) and what kind of DRBD config

If I start ocfs2_controld.cman in parallel on a few nodes, only one of them starts up, the others exit with one of these errors: call_section_read at 370: Reading from section "daemon_protocol" on checkpoint "ocfs2:controld" (try 1) call_section_read at 387: Checkpoint "ocfs2:controld" does not have a section named "daemon_protocol" call_section_read at

On my recently acquired Core2Duo I''ve installed debian etch amd64, Then I''ve pulled the linux-source from since I need newer raid and netcard drivers: http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux-source-2.6.22/linux-source-2.6.22_2.6.22.orig.tar.gz http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/pub/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux-source-2.6.22/linux-source-2.6.22_2.6.22-14.46.diff.gz

I need the community''s opinion on the best way to use my storage SAN to host xen images. The SAN itself is running iSCSI and NFS. My goal is to keep all my xen images on the SAN device, and to be able to easily move images from one host to another as needed while minimizing storage requirements and maximizing performance. What I see are my options: 1) Export a directory through NFS.

Hi Folks, XEN seems to me to be the ideal partner to create a complete DMZ with firewall, router, "Bastios Host(s)" etc within a single PC. So far, I haven''t found any cookbook or how to (at least for the beginning). Anyone knows of such thing? Regards Falko _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com

Hello Everyone, I recently had a question that got no responses about GFS+DRBD clusters for Xen VM storage, but after some consideration (and a lot of Googling) I have a couple of new questions. Basically what we have here are two servers that will each have a RAID-5 array filled up with 5 x 320GB SATA drives, I want to have these as useable file systems on both servers (as they will both be