[NTLUG:Discuss] Summit presentation on virtualization and clustering

[Robert Pearson]

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
> Thomas Cameron (Red Hat) wrote:
>> Hey All -
>>
>> In the hope that it will be helpful, I've posted the presentation that
>> Lon Hohberger and I did at Summit.  In it we go over:
>>
>> Setting up an iSCSI target (tech preview only in RHEL 5.2)
>> Setting up iSCSI initiators
>> Setting up a cluster of virtualization hosts (dom0 machines)
>> Setting up a cluster of virtual machines (domU machines)
>> Setting up Apache and a virtual ip address as a clustered service on the
>> domU machines
>>
>> All of this is on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2.
>
> Wow... a lot of configuration!  I know why I loathe iSCSI so much :)
>
> I imagine the virtual machine setup will be simpler with Red Hat's
> use of kvm?
>
> Very good read.  Is GSF2 ready now?  I thought it was in the
> kernel (??).
>
>
>>
>> Take a peek at http://people.redhat.com/tcameron for the Summit 2008
>> presentation.
>>
>> Sorry for the delay in posting to this list, I've been on the road
>> non-stop since Summit and I'm just now getting to some past due
>> housekeeping.
>>
>> Note that I did the presentation on laptops with no fence device, so I
>> did not set up fencing for the laptops.  I did cover fencing the VMs,
>> though.
>>
>> Hope this is helpful!
>
> VERY useful and helpful... thanks!!!!
>
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Chris, what would you use instead of iSCSI?
There seem to be configurations in the low cost area that demand iSCSI.
Anything else close in performance blows the budget.
Red Hat has one of the cleanest iSCSI implementations I have seen.
This is not a recommendation, just an opinion fact.