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Re: [Xen-users] easy high availability storage
hi
i am looking at all this discussion about ha storage.
it looks to me like there are a lot of complicated solutions for the
problem.
i guess that it will be not very complicated to do all this stuff in the
virtual disc driver of xen.
basicly its just double all the read and write access to the disc image.
and do the resync stuff there.
meight be we shold ask the developper team if they can do it.
the question is ... are there some other people that also want a easy
solution or its just me.
roland
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:29:43 +0100, Nick Couchman
<Nick.Couchman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2009/11/26 at 02:26, Peter Braun <xenware@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
its not my document.
I don't think Fajar was suggesting that it was your document, or blaming
you for what he saw as a couple of possible problems in configuration
described in the document. He was just pointing out that there are
weaknesses with manual fencing that can lead to corruption of your file
system, so, when using GFS, you need to set up real fencing devices to
avoid major filesystem problems.
Actually Ive tried to install H/A SAN according do this document but
without success.
Am looking for opensource solution of H/A SAN - and this is close to my
goal.
The basics:
1) 2 machines with some HDD space synchronized between them with
DRBD.
OK so far...or, if you can afford some sort of storage on the back end
capable of being presented to two hosts simultaneously (like FC-based
storage), you can use that, too.
2) Now am little bit confused what shall I use above the DRBD block
device?
- some cluster FS like OCFS2 or GFS?
- LVM?
Your "SAN controllers" need not actually have a filesystem on them,
unless you're trying to run DRBD on the same systems that are running
your domUs. If you have separate machines doing all of the SAN
functionality, simply synchronize with DRBD and present with iSCSI.
Then you can use a CRM tool (like Heartbeat or one of the others out
there) to manage switching IP addresses between your redundant SAN
heads. At this stage you need not worry about OCFS2 or GFS. On your
Xen servers, use an iSCSI client or iSCSI HBA to connect to the IP
address(es).
3) create files with DD on cluster FS and export them with iSCSI?
create LVM partitions and export them with iSCSI?
This is where you choose between a cluster-aware FS and a cluster-aware
volume manager on the servers running Xen (or both). Either one should
be fine - I use a cluster-aware FS (OCFS2) and use files for each of the
domU disks. One thing to note with a cluster-aware volume manager, if
you go this route you still need to figure out a way to synchronize your
domU configurations between the machines. This may mean using a tool
like rsync, or creating a volume on your volume manager that's just for
configuration files and using a cluster-aware FS on that volume to mount
it on all of the Xen servers.
4) how to make iSCSI target highly available?
- configure iSCSI on virtual IP/another IP and run it as HA
service
- configure separate iSCSI targets on both SAN hosts and
connect it to Xen server as multipath?
I think either one of these should work, though you need to make sure
that the later of the two options is okay given the iSCSI Target Daemon
that you use - with buffering and caching you may run into some issues
with writes not being committed to the disk in the proper order, which
could lead to corruption.
5) hearbeat configuration
Yep...on the SAN controllers for the IPs and iSCSI targets, and possibly
on the Xen servers, as well, for the cluster-aware FS or the
cluster-aware volume manager.
VM machines with iSCSI HDD space on SAN should survive reboot/non
availability of one SAN hosts without interruption nor noticing that
SAN is degraded.
Is that even possible?
Absolutely - the primary issue is getting that failover set up correctly
such that the small interruption to iSCSI service that your Xen servers
will experience does not cause them to think the target has gone away or
cause them to miss iSCSI disk writes.
-Nick
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