Re: [Xen-users] migration, shared storage and fencing

[David Heidt <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bart, thanks a lot for this hint - this method is in deed much safer and
better.

Jeff: Thank you, too. I would have asked the same question ;)

cheers,

David


Bart Coninckx schrieb:
> On Saturday 14 August 2010 11:40:54 Jeff Williams wrote:
>   
>> On 13/08/2010, at 8:50 PM, Bart Coninckx wrote:
>>     
>>> Why not let clustersoftware take care of starting and migrating Xen
>>> DomU's. Pacemaker has an excellent resource agent for that and it allows
>>> you to choose preferred nodes and stuff. Of course, everything needs to
>>> be done via the cluster manager software, no more manually doing "xm ..."
>>> because that would confuse the cluster. I have this running and it works
>>> perfectly. It needs a little bit of scripting for backups (we shut DomU's
>>> briefly down for that and don't want them to come up until the snapshot
>>> has been taken).
>>>       
>> Bart which resource agent is this? And which OS are you running on your
>>  nodes?
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>     
>
> The Xen resource agent: http://linux-ha.org/doc/re-ra-Xen.html 
> I'm running it on SLES10SP3, but this works on whatever distro that has 
> Heartbeat or Pacemaker running.
>
> B.
>
>   


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