tips setting up DRBD and hearbeat to create high-availability virtual machines
scar
scar at drigon.com
Mon Jun 14 03:31:06 UTC 2010
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Ante Karamatić @ 06/06/2010 08:00 PM:
> On 07.06.2010 00:27, scar wrote:
>
>> we have two identical, physical servers with identical hardware. i
>> wanted to set them up with several virtual machines (www, ftp, mail,
>> etc.) and then use DRBD and Heartbeat to make the VM's highly available.
>
> You can't use heartbeat as a cluster resource manager any more. You
> should use pacemaker or redhat-cluster-suite for that. Tutorial for
> pacemaker:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ClusterStack/LucidTesting
>
> These examples does't cover managing VMs with pacemaker, but they will
> get you started with drbd.
thanks so much! i will get DRBD set up with pacemaker, instead.
can anyone comment on any extra care or knowledge that may be needed to
cluster virtual machines, or should it not be any different than
clustering 'regular' partitions?
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