Re: [DRBD-user] KVM on multiple DRBD resources + IPMI stonith - questions

2011-07-01 Thread joukoy
1.7.2011 16:43, Helmut Wollmersdorfer kirjoitti: Am 24.06.2011 um 16:58 schrieb Whit Blauvelt: I truly appreciate that, Pete. What I've been hoping to find is distribution-neutral models for handling KVM failover, where each KVM VM is directly on top of a dedicated DRBD resource - which is a

Re: [DRBD-user] KVM on multiple DRBD resources + IPMI stonith - questions

2011-07-01 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 24.06.2011 um 16:58 schrieb Whit Blauvelt: I truly appreciate that, Pete. What I've been hoping to find is distribution-neutral models for handling KVM failover, where each KVM VM is directly on top of a dedicated DRBD resource - which is a setup with an ideal granularity, as compared to

Re: [DRBD-user] KVM on multiple DRBD resources + IPMI stonith - questions

2011-06-24 Thread Phil Stoneman
On 24/06/11 16:45, Noah Mehl wrote: I've done a lot of thinking on this point, but I've come to a different conclusion. I think that a drbd resource per guest HD is not a great way to go. I think that adds a lot of complexity and overhead you don't necessarily need. I prefer this route mysel

Re: [DRBD-user] KVM on multiple DRBD resources + IPMI stonith - questions

2011-06-24 Thread Lars Ellenberg
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:58:28AM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:54:45PM -0600, Pete Ashdown wrote: > > > I don't think the cluster software is quite ready for primetime in Ubuntu. > > I have high hopes for the next LTS (12.04?). In any case, you'll need the > > ubuntu

Re: [DRBD-user] KVM on multiple DRBD resources + IPMI stonith - questions

2011-06-24 Thread Noah Mehl
On Jun 24, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > But of course I'm looking to live replacement of guests. It's easy enough to > do that with a human involved sitting at virt-manager or drbd-mc. Anything a > human can do, that's a simple, consistent operation like that can be handled > by a wel

Re: [DRBD-user] KVM on multiple DRBD resources + IPMI stonith - questions

2011-06-24 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:54:45PM -0600, Pete Ashdown wrote: > I don't think the cluster software is quite ready for primetime in Ubuntu. > I have high hopes for the next LTS (12.04?). In any case, you'll need the > ubuntu-ha ppa now. I'm an old-school sysadmin. It's gotten to a point in the l

Re: [DRBD-user] KVM on multiple DRBD resources + IPMI stonith - questions

2011-06-23 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Thinking on this more, I'm no longer certain that host-level stonith is an appropriate first or second level of response. There is no such thing in this scenario as a DRBD resource which isn't solely devoted to a single KVM VM. So any logic that assures that only the appropriate VMs are started on

Re: [DRBD-user] KVM on multiple DRBD resources + IPMI stonith - questions

2011-06-23 Thread Pete Ashdown
On 06/23/2011 11:33 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > So, short of taking the long way around and spending weeks more studying the > whole Pacemaker/OpenAIS universe, what's the simplest way to a reasonably > dependable two-host KVM-VM-on-LVM-on-DRBD private cloud? I don't think the cluster software is q

Re: [DRBD-user] KVM on multiple DRBD resources + IPMI stonith - questions

2011-06-23 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:33:05PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > The step for today is trying to get IPMI stonith working, using Pacemaker > 1.0.9 and Heartbeat 3.0.2. I've tried configuring external/impi through > DRBD-MC, but all ends up with is a gray box saying Starting ... Not Running, > desp

[DRBD-user] KVM on multiple DRBD resources + IPMI stonith - questions

2011-06-23 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Hi, After various diversions from the project, I'm back to gathering clues on what should be a simple setup. But either my clue basket it leaking, or some necessary clues take better luck than mine to easily find. It's should be a fairly simple setup to complete. It consists of two servers, dedic