[Linux-cluster] Hardware options

[Virginian]

Hi Lon,

That is a good solution and could be a possible second cluster for me to 
tinker with. However, I was rather hoping to use two nodes though and shared 
storage to have two physical nodes clustered and then tinker with a virtual 
cluster too (same as my existing cluster set up but a lot less heavy on the 
electricity bill!!). I haven't tried kvm yet but it is something I would 
like to have a play with (I've used xen and vmware up to now).

Regards

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lon Hohberger" <lhh at redhat.com>
To: "linux clustering" <linux-cluster at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] Hardware options


> On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 18:22 +0100, Virginian wrote:
>>
>> My question is, does anybody have a low cost hardware specification
>> that they are running xen and RHCS on with shared storage that won't
>> cost the earth and won't hit me in the wallet when it comes to paying
>> the electricity bill?
>
> If you're not trying to migrate VMs between physical machines and are
> primarily concerned with tinkering with other parts of the cluster, you
> can use a notebook or desktop w/ VT support, Fedora 10, and KVM.  From
> there, you can install RHEL5 or the operating system of your choice in
> to the VMs and cluster the VMs.
>
> It doesn't protect you against hardware failures at all, but it's a good
> low-cost development platform.
>
> Obviously, you can't put a VM in a VM, so you can't tinker with VM live
> migration or anything like that.
>
> -- Lon
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