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:
* 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
Thank you very much for this, looks like a good read. Will provide feedback :)
Aly
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Digimer lists@alteeve.ca wrote:
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:
- 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!
-- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
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
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Digimer <lists@alteeve.ca mailto:lists@alteeve.ca> wrote:
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: * 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 -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org <mailto:CentOS-virt@centos.org> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
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