[CentOS-virt] Announcing a new HA KVM tutorial!

[Digimer]

Awesome, I'll be very happy for your feedback!

On 06/01/14 11:20 AM, Aly Khimji wrote:
> Thank you very much for this, looks like a good read.
> Will provide feedback  :)
>
> Aly
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> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca
> <mailto:lists at alteeve.ca>> wrote:
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>     Almost exactly two years ago, I released the first tutorial for building
>     an HA platform for KVM VMs. In that time, I have learned a lot, created
>     some tools to simplify management and refined the design to handle
>     corner-cases seen in the field.
>
>     Today, the culmination of that learning is summed up in the "2nd
>     Edition" of that tutorial, now called "AN!Cluster Tutorial 2".
>
>     https://alteeve.ca/w/AN!Cluster_Tutorial_2
>
>     These HA KVM platforms have been in production for over two years now in
>     facilities all over the world; Universities, municipal governments,
>     corporate DCs, manufacturing facilities, etc. I've gotten wonderful
>     feedback from users and all that real-world experience has been
>     integrated into this new tutorial.
>
>     As always, everything is 100% open source and free-as-in-beer!
>
>     The major changes are:
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>     * SELinux and iptables are enabled and used.
>     * Numerous slight changes made to the OS and cluster stack configuration
>     to provide better corner-case fault handling.
>
>     * Architecture refinements;
>     ** Redundant PSUs, UPSes and fence methods emphasized.
>     ** Monitoring multiple UPSes added via modified apcupsd
>     ** Detailed monitoring of LSI-based RAID controllers and drives
>     ** Discussion on hardware considerations for VM performance based on
>     anticipated work loads
>
>     * Naming convention changes to support the new AN!CDB dashboard[1]
>     ** New alert system covered with fault and notable event alerting
>
>     * Wider array of guest OSes are covered;
>     ** Windows 7
>     ** Windows 8
>     ** Windows 2008 R2
>     ** Windows 2012
>     ** Solaris 11
>     ** FreeBSD 9
>     ** RHEL 6
>     ** SLES 11
>
>     Beyond that, the formatting of the tutorial itself has been slightly
>     modified. I do think it is the easiest to follow tutorial I have yet
>     been able to produce. I am very proud of this one! :D
>
>     As always, feedback is always very much appreciated. Everything from
>     typos/grammar mistakes, functional problems or anything else is very
>     valuable. I take all the feedback I get and use it to helping make the
>     tutorials better.
>
>     Enjoy!
>
>     Digimer, who now can now start the next tutorial in earnest!
>
>     1. https://alteeve.ca/w/AN!CDB
>
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