On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 01:25:01PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Can anyone pleas tell me what would be best practice to use shared >> storage with virtual machines, especially when it involved high >> availability / automated failover between 2 XEN servers? >> >> i.e. if I setup 2x identical XEN servers, each with say 16GB RAM, 4x >> 1GB NIC's, etc. Then I need the xen domU's to auto failover between >> the 2 servers if either goes down (hardware failure / overload / >> kernel updates / etc). >> >> What is the best way to connect a NAS / SAN to these 2 servers for >> this kind of setup to work flawlessly? The NAS can export iSCSI, NFS, >> SMB, etc. I'm sure I could even use ATAOE if needed >> > > You could use Citrix XenServer, or XCP.. they're based on CentOS 5, > and they support shared storage with iSCSI out-of-the-box on multi-host pools. > > If you go with the "plain" CentOS route you need to script/manage it yourself. > > -- Pasi Did you even read my whole message? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532