similar to: as promised description of my XEN HA setup

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

Hi, I want to combine all the above mentioned technologies. The Linbit pages warn not to use the drbd: VBD with HVM DomUs. This page however: http://publications.jbfavre.org/virtualisation/cluster-xen-corosync-pacemaker-drbd-ocfs2.en (thank you Jean), simply puts two DRBD devices in dual primary mode and starts Xen DomUs while pointing to the DRBD devices with phy: in the DomU config files.

I''ve been brainstorming... I want to create a 2-node HA active/active cluster (In other words I want to run a handful of DomUs on one node and a handful on another). In the event of a failure I want all DomUs to fail over to the other node and start working immediately. I want absolutely no single-points-of-failure. I want to do it with free software and no special hardware. I want

My future plan currently looks like this for my VPS hosting solution, so any feedback would be appreciated: Each Node: Dell R210 Intel X3430 Quad Core 8GB RAM Intel PT 1Gbps Server Dual Port NIC using linux "bonding" Small pair of HDDs for OS (Probably in RAID1) Each node will run about 10 - 15 customer guests Storage Server: Some Intel Quad Core Chip 2GB RAM (Maybe more?) LSI

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

My NFS setup is a heartbeat setup on two servers running Active/Passive DRBD. The NFS servers themselves are 1x 2 core Opterons with 8G ram and 5TB space with 16 drives and a 3ware controller. They're connected to a HP procurve switch with bonded ethernet. The sync-rates between the two DRBD nodes seem to safely reach 200Mbps or better. The processors on the active NFS servers run with a load

Guys, I have setup my hard disc with 3 partitions: 1- 256MB on /boot; 2- 2GB on / for my dom0 (Debian 5.0) (eth0 default bridge for guests LAN); 3- 498GB exported with vblade-persist to my network (eth1 for the AoE protocol). On dom0 hypervisor01: vblade-persist setup 0 0 eth1 /dev/sda3 vblade-persist start all How to create a CVLM VG with /dev/etherd/e0.0 on each of my dom0s? Including the

Greetings. I''ve reviewed the list archives, particularly the posts from Zakk, on this subject, and found results similar to his. drbd provides a block-drbd script, but with full virtualization, at least on RHEL 5, this does not work; by the time the block script is run, the qemu-dm has already been started. Instead I''ve been simply musing the possibility of keeping the drbd

Hello everybody, I am in the process of setting up a really cool xen serverfarm. Backend storage will be an LVMed AoE-device on top of DRBD. The goal is to have the backend storage completely redundant. Picture: |RAID| |RAID| |DRBD1| <----> |DRBD2| \ / |VMAC| | AoE | |global LVM VG| / | \ |Dom0a| |Dom0b| |Dom0c| | |

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,

I have a system with a large LVM VG partition. I was wondering if there is a way i could share the partition using nbd and have the nbd-client have access the LVM as if it was local. SYSTEM A: /dev/sda3 is a LVM partition and is assigned to VG volgroup1. I want to share /dev/sda3 via nbd-server SYSTEM B: receives A''s /dev/sda3 as /dev/nbd0. I want to access it as VG volgroup1. I am

Hi, I think I''ve nearly evaluated all choices for which Virtualisation option to go to. Disappointed so far that I can''t get my PCI Cards visible in a guest, but never mind. On the same hardware (2 Gig RAM, AMD Athlon 64 3500 and a Fedora Core 8 i386 install), OpenVZ has a tendency to "freeze" up every now and again in SSH.KVM/Qemu seem to slow, Xen seems really

Hi list, I setup on 2 Xen Dom0s drbd/gfs a logical volume, this works as primary/primary so both DomUs will be able to write on them at the same time. But I dont know how to mount them from my domUs, I can see them with fdisk -l. The partition is /dev/xvdb1 SHould I install gfs on domUs and mount them on each as gfs partitions? [root@p3x0501 ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/xvda: 5368 MB, 5368709120

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

I wonder if someone can point me in right directions. I have two dell servers I setup iscsi so I have four 2 tb hard drives and i had used lvm to create one big partiton and share it using iscsi. How I go about assigning sections of iscsi for virtual hard drives . should go about assigning Should I export the whole 8TB as one iscsi and then use lvm to create smaller virtual disk. Or should I

Is it possible to create a highly-available OCFS2 cluster (i.e., A storage cluster that mitigates the single point of failure [SPoF] created by storing an OCFS2 volume on a single LUN)? The OCFS2 Project Page makes this claim... > OCFS2 is a general-purpose shared-disk cluster file system for Linux capable of providing both high performance and high availability. ...but without backing-up

Hello all, At our office a have a server running 3 Xen domains. Mail server, etc. I want to make this setup more redundant. There are a few howtos on the combination of Xen, DRBD, and heartbeat. That is probably the best way. Another option I am looking at is a piece of shared storage, a machine running CentOS with a large software RAID 5 array. What is the best means of sharing the storage?

Bonjour, J''aimerai mettre en place un cluster sous Xen ou XenServer avec 2 serveurs dell R 710. J''aimerai pouvoir monter un cluster en utilisant l''espace disque entiere des 2 serveurs cumulés ainsi que la mémoire Quelles sont vos retour d''expériences et vos configurations? Merci d''avance Cordialement Mat

I''ve installed debian lenny amd64, it is frozen now. I''ve install kernel for xen support but it doesn''t start. It says "you need to load kernel first" but I''ve installed all the packages concerning xen, also packages related to the kernel. Perhaps lenny doesn''t support xen anymore? Any solution?

I was wondering if anyone''s compiled a list of places to look to reduce Disk IO Latency for Xen PV DomUs. I''ve gotten reasonably acceptable performance from my setup (Dom0 as a iSCSI initiator, providing phy volumes to DomUs), at about 45MB/sec writes, and 80MB/sec reads (this is to a IET target running in blockio mode). As always, reducing latency for small disk operations