Re: [Xen-users] Xen clustering

["Sebastian Reitenbach" <sebastia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

sadegh <mshoosh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > sadegh wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >>    well , if  we  say  FailOver mechanism is stop one and restart 
> >> another node it is true but if FailOver definition is  Migration from 
> >> one node to another.
> >> What is your idea about it?
> > Slow down a moment. Failover means different things to different 
> > people. A full so-called "High Availability" solution, where each 
> > individual component can fail but the rest automatically switch the 
> > resources they're using, is useful sometimes but seriously expensive 
> > to implement, and the switchover mechanisms themselves create their 
> > own uncertainties.
> Yes , i mean if we can freeze all of a context  (context of processes of 
> OS on a VM) on the shared storage for Live-Migration  because of  VMM is 
> here then  if  some fault occurs migration to other host is practicable 
> is it?
> >> increasing redundant hardwares is it?
> > It's part of an integrated solution. The redundant hardware has to be 
> > cross-wired in usable failover setups for individual setups. Xen can 
> > be a very useful component for this, because the potentially more 
> > reliable centralized storage system can be made extremely robust and 
> > the servers swap domains as necessary to other working hardware.
> migrating to another non-utilized host (with some mechanisms) decreasing 
> redundancy not all redundancy is it?
> >> and if we have proactive fault detection mechanism we can do it.
> > Yes, but there are limits to this. Janitors blow fuses: cage monkeys 
> > accidentally crimp fiber, or disconnect idle connections. And hard 
> > drives fail without any warning whatsoever, even a few at a time. 
> > There's a white paper from Google on this I highly recommend, where 
> > roughly 30% of the drives fail without any SMART detection at all.
> hmmm. yes.
> >> some related works exist.
> >> My thesis is about this subject "Improving Survivability of  HA 
> >> Clusters" (that Mission-Critical apps. runs on...)
> >> if any body help me to Hacking Xen, heartbeat and implementing some 
> >> other tools and compare results we can  publishing some Papers about 
> >> this and have friendly work group!
> >> I am ready to contribute and very appreciate.
> >> Best Regards
> >> Sadegh
> > Ohhhh. Cool. It's not clear how much you need Xen for this, as much as 
> > integration of Xen with the available approaches.
> i think the above words is clear
> thank you
I am just sitting here, try to update the Xen OCF script from linux-ha, to 
add some xm mem-set statements to start, stop, migrate_, ... functions.

I'll see how far I get today, but you can contact me offlist if you want to 
get my updated script for tests.

Sebastian


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