[Pacemaker] clusters on virtualised platforms

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2014-07-17T10:36:01, Nick Cameo <symack at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Instead, have the HA hypervisor layer protect the VM as a clustered
> service"
> 
> I had to read this a couple of times Lars, and it's interesting. If I
> understand correctly run the cluster on bare metal, taking care of the
> virtual machine instances on the same box?

Yes, exactly. In my opinion, any hypervisor environment should support
HA/fail-over protection for the guests it manages.

This can be done easily with corosync/pacemaker and, say, using the
VirtualDomain or Xen resource agents.


Regards,
    Lars

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