Xen users - Aug 2008 - xen redhat 5.2 deployment

Greetings fellow Xen users,

We are looking at deploying Redhat Xen on two nodes with several guests
balanced between the two. I have looked through the faq and it is very
helpful. Is there any gotchas or other newb issues I should be looking at?
One of the biggest questions I have at the moment is how to have reduntant
failover between the two nodes should one of them go down. Basically the
thought it to have the guests run on the remaining node without intervention
if possible. Can this be integrated with the Redhat cluster suite or is
there a better way?

Thanks in advance,

J. D.


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J. D. wrote:
> Greetings fellow Xen users,
>
> We are looking at deploying Redhat Xen on two nodes with several 
> guests balanced between the two. I have looked through the faq and it 
> is very helpful. Is there any gotchas or other newb issues I should be 
> looking at? One of the biggest questions I have at the moment is how 
> to have reduntant failover between the two nodes should one of them go 
> down. Basically the thought it to have the guests run on the remaining 
> node without intervention if possible. Can this be integrated with the 
> Redhat cluster suite or is there a better way?
Check 
http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/08/23/automated-failover-and-recovery-of-virtualized-guests-in-advanced-platform/

--Sadique
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> J. D.
>
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An alternative is to use DRBD and heartbeat, I just set this up myself
with Centos 5.2 and Xen 3.2.1, seems to work well.

Rob

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J. D. wrote:
> Greetings fellow Xen users,
>
> We are looking at deploying Redhat Xen on two nodes with several 
> guests balanced between the two. I have looked through the faq and it 
> is very helpful. Is there any gotchas or other newb issues I should be
> looking at? One of the biggest questions I have at the moment is how 
> to have reduntant failover between the two nodes should one of them go
> down. Basically the thought it to have the guests run on the remaining
> node without intervention if possible. Can this be integrated with the
> Redhat cluster suite or is there a better way?
Check 
http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/08/23/automated-failover-and-recovery
-of-virtualized-guests-in-advanced-platform/

--Sadique
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> J. D.
>
>
>
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