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

Mon Jan 6 16:20:08 UTC 2014
Aly Khimji <aly.khimji at gmail.com>

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 at 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
>
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