On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 15:51 -0700, matt whiteley wrote: > I have spent lots of hours trying different setups and reading the > documentation already so I hope this isn't a faq as I am new to the > list. > > I read the Red Hat Magazine article on this topic[1], but have come to > realize that it might not be exactly what I am going for. I want to > have a group of nodes that run a group of virtual machines with > automated failover. I set things up how the article described but > realized I didn't want the gfs mount in the fstab file. I would like > the gfs mount described in the cluster.conf file so that as nodes are > added or removed the mount will follow the changes (I know about the 1 > journal per node so have created a few extra already). When I add a > service to mount the gfs resource, it only gets mounted on one node as > is to be expected thinking in terms of other resources. > I started thinking about this and it almost seems like gfs is > unnecessary. Should I have a file system per virtual machine that > wouldn't need to be gfs since only one node will ever run a virtual > machine at a time? Then mount/umount the file system as the virtual > machine was migrated in the cluster? If you assign a raw SAN Lun to each virtual machine, you don't need GFS. I would not bother making an EXT3 or other local file system and placing a single VM image on it; it's not terribly practical. -- Lon > > It seems like I am missing something about how this should be setup > and I would really appreciate any tips or ideas. I will include my > cluster.conf in case it provides any more info. > > As a side note, what is with all the errors from system-config- > kickstart telling me my config file is invalid if it was generated by > conga. Both versions are updated to the newest available. > > > > [1] http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/08/23/automated-failover-and-recovery-of-virtualized-guests-in-advanced-platform/ > > thanks, > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
