On another train of thought, I was wondering about the following. Would there be any benefit in creating an SSI cluster made up of x number of servers. Then, slicing that up into VM's as required. The SSI would always be intact as it is, the servers could come and go as needed, the storage would be separate from the entire mix. If one node needed more processing power than the rest, it would take it from the SSI cluster. Otherwise, idle machines are wasting their resources. Again, this is just a theory based on my tiny understanding of SSI clusters and VM to begin with but it's kind of an outline of what I'd like to achieve. The reason of course is that then I would have a very scalable environment where very little goes to waste, resources can be used where needed, not wasted.
This is pretty independent of clustering/SSI. Yes, you can do this, but clustering isn't a critical requirement.
When adding/removing nodes from the cluster, make sure quorum is maintained, though.
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