Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2004-01-29 23:35:14 +0100 \ Dominique Chabord: > From: "Chris Doten" <cdoten at carleton.edu> > To: "General Linux-HA mailing list" <linux-ha at lists.linux-ha.org> > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 9:42 PM > Subject: [Linux-HA] Failover VMWare? > > > Greetings- > > > > We're looking at EMC's VMWare, and I was curious if out there in HA-land > > has tried running it in a linux-ha clustered environment. Very compelling > > idea to have entire "servers" able to shutdown and fail over to another > > machine. We've got Red Hat Enterprise, and have been enjoying heartbeat et > > al very much for more conventional things (apache, etc.). > > > > Anyone with successes or horror stories? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Chris Doten > Hello, > > for shaman-x project, we use BOCHS (GPL software) instead of WMware, but I > think the idea is similar to yours and we implement failover between BOCHS > machines. BOCHS has many limitations (improving fast) so we don't envisage > it for production purpose now. BOCHS is, as VMware, OS independant which UML > is > not. Anyway, it is very helpful for prototyping, qualifying and > demonstrating complex failover situations. > We demonstrate at SolutionsLinux 2004 in Paris next week a 8 BOCHS virtual > machines simulation. It features DRBD and WDX. It implements data > replication and hot spare for DRBD. cool! be sure to let me know the details ... > BOCHS machines are spit in two simulated locations and we > demonstrate automated "site failover". Remote administration is > done across a web page called HDX. The issue we are working on > is the performance of DRBD resynchs and reliability of WDX > failovers on BOCHS machines which rapidly slow down. > I did not try heartbeat on bochs machines, but it's on my agenda > because it is then easy to demonstrate and explain. Any idea how > to implement STONITH on virtual machines ? ;-) killall -9 ;) > And why not geting grid computing on virtual machines ? > > Regards > Dominique > Lars Ellenberg