On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 08:28:29PM +0000, Matt Temple wrote: > We've been looking for a way to have HA for our VMWare datastore, too. (Our > single server had a kernel panic last night and took down the VMs.) > We're very much interested in a similar setup, using Gluster, but I have a > question ... with Gluster NFS, don't you have to choose a specific address of a > server to connect to? And if yes, if that node goes down, how does VMWare > respond? Pretty much the standard thing to do is use a virtual IP address with ucarp handling reassignment if the primary node goes down. I've yet to run that through thorough tests to see if how transparent it is in a case of failure. It's simple to set up though. There are, of course, plenty of more complicated alternatives to ucarp in the HA world - heartbeat, pacemaker, corosync.... Whit
