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Re: [Xen-users] High availability and live migration with just LVM and h

To: Bart Coninckx <bart.coninckx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] High availability and live migration with just LVM and hardware fencing
From: John Madden <jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 09:34:18 -0400
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Did some further research in the meantime and so far the best reason I can find for using cLVM, is the making changes to the volume groups: with cLVM they seem to be "published" to all Xen hosts at once, while with LVM one needs to reconnect to the volume group (probably causing weird things to the guests).

Agreed, I wouldn't touch his setup without clvm being there. It does other nice things like making sure each cluster member can see the block devices before allowing changes to LVM state, which is nice when you have to zone and mask dozens of disks. cLVM is a must in my book.

John





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John Madden
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