Re: CentOS Cluster LVM

Pete Zaitcev <[email protected]> Mon, 4 May 2009 10:51:55 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.nmlug
Organization Red Hat, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 4 May 2009 09:40:56 -0600, "Ed Heron" <[email protected]> wrote:

>   Anybody using clustered LVM on CentOS 5 to provide drive space for virtual 
> machines on a GNU/Linux/Xen host?

Not I, but it would be interesting to hear if anyone does it.

>   The docs for Clustered LVM appear to suggest the storage server could 
> mirror the virtual drive space onto another storage server on the fly.  This 
> could provide a low apparent cost redundant system.

Do you mean that there's no man-hour cost associated with learning
setting up Xen-based active migration or how Xen incurs capacity
costs?

I use non-clustered LVM so that I can shut VM down (well, usually it's
when the box is dead by itself :-)), dd it over and reboot. So there's
a downtime during the transfer, which I thought acceptable.

-- Pete
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