I wonder if you can host a small cluster on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure? Anyone tried it? It's not free, but may be very inexpensive for small deployments, and can be dynamically provisioned to save $$$. It could be less than your current electricity bill. > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Virginian > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 6:22 PM > To: linux clustering > Subject: Re: Hardware options > > Hi Lon, > > That is a good solution and could be a possible second > cluster for me to tinker with. However, I was rather hoping > to use two nodes though and shared storage to have two > physical nodes clustered and then tinker with a virtual > cluster too (same as my existing cluster set up but a lot > less heavy on the electricity bill!!). I haven't tried kvm > yet but it is something I would like to have a play with > (I've used xen and vmware up to now). > > Regards > > John > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lon Hohberger" <lhh@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "linux clustering" <linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 7:26 PM > Subject: Re: Hardware options > > > > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 18:22 +0100, Virginian wrote: > >> > >> My question is, does anybody have a low cost hardware specification > >> that they are running xen and RHCS on with shared storage > that won't > >> cost the earth and won't hit me in the wallet when it > comes to paying > >> the electricity bill? > > > > If you're not trying to migrate VMs between physical > machines and are > > primarily concerned with tinkering with other parts of the > cluster, you > > can use a notebook or desktop w/ VT support, Fedora 10, and > KVM. From > > there, you can install RHEL5 or the operating system of > your choice in > > to the VMs and cluster the VMs. > > > > It doesn't protect you against hardware failures at all, > but it's a good > > low-cost development platform. > > > > Obviously, you can't put a VM in a VM, so you can't tinker > with VM live > > migration or anything like that. > > > > -- Lon > > > > -- > > 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 > > -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
