Re: [Xen-users] Re: Is Anybody Running Xen in Production Environment

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Christian Horn wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 04:14:53PM +0100, Nuno Fernandes wrote:
>   
> > Nops.. no modules from HP so far..
> >
> > "RH EL 5 = Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
> > HP will issue a customer advisory for RH EL 5 Xen. HP has certified and will 
> > support these servers listed below with the following caveats:
> >     * No HP management agent support
> >     
> Wonder who uses those anyway, with proprietary modules around this is
> one of the first things to point to when the kernel behaves strange.
>
> Getting aware of disk-failure in HP-servers was good enough for us
> and only needs tools operating in userspace.
> Did someone try to run array-info in a dom0 running on HP-hardware?
>
>   
You've noticed that?

I'm going through this now as part of negotiating some co-location 
services. They couldn't *imagine* that I'd rather have backup OS images 
scattered around multiple servers than burning half of my available disk 
using RAID1, and couldn't imagine using SNMP monitoring of overall 
services rather than these familiar integrated tools. It's leading to a 
lot of... negotiation.
It's handy when you only have a very few staff, and a 99.9% uptime SLA, 
to get the reports of hardware outages rather than poking the OS's. But 
given that development and QA work is so likely to slap down servers 
until a year or two after the software is stabilized and in use, it just 
seems a waste of time. Orient your support around fast swap-in 
capability, easy redeployment, and regular backups instead.
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