2008/4/11, Greg Freemyer
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Ciro Iriarte
wrote: Hi, I'm installing SLES10SP1 (think of Opensuse 10.2, more or less) on a Proliant DL380 G5 to run Xen Domains. Later, another machine will join the party, so I can have two Xen hosts to move back and forth the VMs on the fly.
The thing is, in a perfect world I would have a single LUN for all my VMs and would use a cluster aware LVM solution to assign disks for the domains.
Back to reality, I don't want to use EVMS, since it adds another layer of complexity and will be dropped in future releases of the distro. Are there any other options than the next two?:
- Use a big LUN with OCFS2 to host file based images, losing performance & flexibility (i don't like it) - Nag the SAN admin every time I need to add a new domain, so he creates a new LUN for me (a 500GB, 20GB or 1GB one, who knows), keeping performance, but losing flexibility (and maybe even wasting disk space).
Another question, can I use lvm inside paravirtual domains?, all the guides I found advice to create volumes outside the domain to assing them to FS, example:
/dev/vmdisks/dom0-root /dev/vmdisks/dom1-root /dev/vmdisks/dom0-home /dev/vmdisks/dom1-home /dev/vmdisks/dom0-var /dev/vmdisks/dom1-var /dev/vmdisks/dom0-usr /dev/vmdisks/dom1-usr
But this way I won't be able to have domains on different hosts, (a safe way at least, since I need this to be reliable)
Regards, Ciro
Ciro,
Have you looked into heartbeat (linux-ha). It is part of SLES and is part of their support pacakage. It has had XEN support for a year or so.
http://www.linux-ha.org/XenResource
If that is the way you go you may want to subscribe to their mailing list and ask again there.
You can subscribe via one of the links at http://www.linux-ha.org/ContactUs
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I'm currently using heartbeat on sles9. It can help in VM relocation to avoid downtime, but i'm more concerned about the VM disk management, heartbeat2 can do nothing about that.... Regards, Ciro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org