[NTLUG:Discuss] Summit presentation on virtualization and clustering

[Chris Cox]

Thomas Cameron (Red Hat) wrote:
> Hey All -
> 
> In the hope that it will be helpful, I've posted the presentation that
> Lon Hohberger and I did at Summit.  In it we go over:
> 
> Setting up an iSCSI target (tech preview only in RHEL 5.2)
> Setting up iSCSI initiators
> Setting up a cluster of virtualization hosts (dom0 machines)
> Setting up a cluster of virtual machines (domU machines)
> Setting up Apache and a virtual ip address as a clustered service on the
> domU machines
> 
> All of this is on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2.

Wow... a lot of configuration!  I know why I loathe iSCSI so much :)

I imagine the virtual machine setup will be simpler with Red Hat's
use of kvm?

Very good read.  Is GSF2 ready now?  I thought it was in the
kernel (??).


> 
> Take a peek at http://people.redhat.com/tcameron for the Summit 2008
> presentation.
> 
> Sorry for the delay in posting to this list, I've been on the road
> non-stop since Summit and I'm just now getting to some past due
> housekeeping.
> 
> Note that I did the presentation on laptops with no fence device, so I
> did not set up fencing for the laptops.  I did cover fencing the VMs,
> though.
> 
> Hope this is helpful!

VERY useful and helpful... thanks!!!!