Hi Mark, My name is Aaron Lippold. I am the Project and Technical Lead of the Open Source Steering Group at DISA. I am looking at doing a very similar lay down for my environment. We should chat, since I am currently in the middle of 'building' my configuration now. Yours, Aaron On 10/26/07, Mark Nielsen <mnielsen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings list, > > My name is Mark Nielsen, I'm with GPS-FED. My contract is with the FBI > in Quantico, VA where we are moving away from the idea of one server per > task. We've taken Dell 2950's and have built what we call "service grid" > clusters using Cluster Suite and GFS. These service grid nodes do > nothing but serve Xen. All production data processing happens inside > VMs. These VMs are run as services in Cluster Suite, root disks all from > SAN LVMs and can be live-migrated, saved, etc. /etc/xen/ is where the > GFS part comes in so each node sees the exact same VM config. That's it > in a nutshell, there are some other cool things (like using multiple > bonded interfaces with VLANs virtually segregating the various > virtualized Cluster Suite clusters... nested clusters :) so if you want > more info feel free to e-mail me. > > I'm introducing myself because sometimes I get the feeling there aren't > many people putting all of this stuff together in a production > environment. I'm looking for a two-way relationship here :) Help with > some of the challenges (how to manage all these VMs properly... > virt-factory?) and also because we have 3 clusters: test, production, > DR. These allow me the opportunity to do some real testing and file many > bugzillas. If there's any testing or feedback you'd like, please let me > know. The one caveat is that because it's an FBI network, it's > classified :( I can't provide any sort of direct access, but I can > import test packages and export log data and other debug information. > > Any suggestions/advice/criticism is greatly appreciated! > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > et-mgmt-tools mailing list > et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools > > _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
