KVM on a Cluster?

[Benjamin Griese]

KVM and Cluster? :)

Maybe you take a look at:

http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page

bye

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 16:31, Nikolai K. Bochev
<n.bochev at grandstarco.com>wrote:

> Hey,
>
> The closest thing i found was :
>
> http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20090811.125913.6d2ffff6.en.html
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sander van Vugt" <mail at sandervanvugt.nl>
> To: "Mat" <mat at olitec.ca>
> Cc: ubuntu-server at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:13:25 PM
> Subject: Re: KVM on a Cluster?
>
> Hi,
>
> Yes, this is perfectly possible. I'm just finalizing a book on how to do
> that trick with Xen machines. But from cluster perspective, it
> absolutely doesn't matter which machine type to use. Look for the
> following:
>
> openais + pacemaker HA clustering
> shared storage on a SAN, based on OCFS2 so that it is accessible by
> multiple nodes simultaneously
> enough RAM in all the host machines
>
> HTH,
> Sander
>
> On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 11:09 -0800, Mat wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > The cluster stack found in the wiki[1] looks very promising and I'm
> > looking forward to testing it out. One thing I've been thinking about
> > lately and looking for online is the possibility of running a virtual
> > machine with KVM on top of a cluster.
> >
> > Is it possible, or even practical to run an application like KVM on a
> > cluster? The reason driving me to think about this would be hardware
> > redundancy, and the ability to make "live" backups of a virtual machine
> > by isolating it from the others (a script that temporarily disables the
> > network?) and shutting it down for a snapshot.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I have very little practical knowledge and experience
> > when it comes to clusters, so please feel free to enlighten me if I'm
> > proposing something crazy.
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ClusterStack/LucidTesting
> >
> > Thanks.
> > matoc
> >
>
>
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