[CentOS] Clustering

[Les Ault]

On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 07:57 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Bo Lynch wrote:
> > 
> >>
> > Currently we are doing the low tech method. Daily and weekly backups both
> > onsite and off along with RAID and all that other good stuff. I was just
> > wondering if clustering was a better way of handling things. Thanks for
> > the info.
> 
> If you are looking at VMware, ESX(i) is the nicest of the bunch but moderately 
> expensive for the full version that does clustering and live moves - and you 
> also need a highly reliable iscsi disk server.  But even the free version is 
> very nice in terms of the management tools, low overhead, and the ability to 
> overcommit the host's RAM.  You could start by building shadow copies of most of 
> your servers that could be activated as needed, with perhaps a few being live 
> with application level failover (heartbeat, drbd, database replication, etc.). 
> ESXi is also a nice lab framework for testing new thing.
> 
> 

There are also a lot community scripts for management as well.

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9852


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