I am also interested in a "how-to" for Remus on Xen 3.4.2 / CentOS 5.5
for Dom0. (RPMs from http://www.gitco.de/repo/GITCO-XEN3.4.2_x86_64.repo
)
Any info or directions will be highly appreciated.
fpt
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From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Donny Brooks
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 2:02 PM
To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] remus vs. pacemaker/drbd?
I too would like to hear from anyone that has xen and remus in a
production environment.
--
Donny B.
On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 11:46 AM CDT, Miles Fidelman
<mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greg Woods wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 09:28 -0600, Nick Couchman wrote:
> >
> >> Pacemaker/DRBD, on the other hand, just synchronizes the data,
> >> and if it detects that one of the domUs has died, starts it up
somewhere else.
> >> So, with Remus, the theory/goal is 0 downtime of your domU,
whereas Pacemaker
> >> simply minimizes downtime to a certain point - the time it takes to
detect failure
> >> and boot the new domU.
> >>
> > Actually, pacemaker can do live migrations with some limitations. If
the
> >
> > I have no experience with Remus, but from Nick's description of it,
it
> > sounds like Remus might be a whole lot easier to set up and may be a
> > good way to go if all you care about is failover for your domU's, or
if
> > you really need instantaneous failover in the event of a server
crash.
> >
> All of this is well and good, but not to the point.
>
> I'm using pacemaker and DRBD. It works. it's just a pain.
>
> Has anybody on this list actually used Remus in production? Is it
ready
> for prime time? Or is it still beta (or alpha)?
>
> Miles
>
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>
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