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Re: [Xen-users] Re: Re: Redundant server setup

To: "John Madden" <jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Re: Re: Redundant server setup
From: "Paul M." <paul@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:17:19 -0400
Cc: Matthew Wild <M.Wild@xxxxxxxx>, Per Andreas Buer <per.buer@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On 5/23/06, John Madden <jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you have a few machines to devote to file storage than a cluster
> file system is the best way to go. Having dom0 on each of the machines
> provide a CFS<-->NFS bridge for the domUs and a Nagios server running
> to monitor services/domU's and restart on other machines if needed
> would provide a system with the network being the only single point of
> failure. And that could be taken care of too....

Sounds fishy.  Please define "few machines to devote to file storage"
and what that has to do with a cluster filesystem.

The "few machines" would be nodes in the DFS.

Distributed file system might have been a better way to put it but it
might confuse windows admins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_file_system

-Paul

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