[Linux-cluster] High Availability Virtualisation

[Lon Hohberger]

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 11:03 +0000, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I presently run a bunch of openvz ve's on a fairly beefy machine.
> 
> I am somewhat concerned that if this machine fails, the vms fail too.
> 
> Other than using redundant hardware (multiple psu, mirrored disks,
> etc), how can I increase availability?  I could put the virtual
> environments on a shared filesystem, but really I'd like some kind of
> failover mechanism.  Is this asking too much?

rgmanager can fail over / migrate / restart Xen virtual machines; it
wouldn't be hard to extend it to other libvirt-supported VM systems.

-- Lon