i'm also interested in this. is there any pro/con to using native gluster FUSE client for xen images? i would have thought that would mitigate the use of ucarp (apart from initial connect). -p On 26 May 2011 21:39, Whit Blauvelt <whit.gluster at transpect.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110526/ae4255d3/attachment.htm>
