[CentOS] KVM HA
Digimer
lists at alteeve.ca
Wed Jun 22 05:20:10 UTC 2016
On 22/06/16 01:01 AM, Tom Robinson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two KVM hosts (CentOS 7) and would like them to operate as High Availability servers,
> automatically migrating guests when one of the hosts goes down.
>
> My question is: Is this even possible? All the documentation for HA that I've found appears to not
> do this. Am I missing something?
Very possible. It's all I've done for years now.
https://alteeve.ca/w/AN!Cluster_Tutorial_2
That's for EL 6, but the basic concepts port perfectly. In EL7, just
change out cman + rgmanager for pacemaker. The commands change, but the
concepts don't. Also, we use DRBD but you can conceptually swap that for
"SAN" and the logic is the same (though I would argue that a SAN is less
reliable).
There is an active mailing list for HA clustering, too:
http://clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> My configuration so fare includes:
>
> * SAN Storage Volumes for raw device mappings for guest vms (single volume per guest).
> * multipathing of iSCSI and Infiniband paths to raw devices
> * live migration of guests works
> * a cluster configuration (pcs, corosync, pacemaker)
>
> Currently when I migrate a guest, I can all too easily start it up on both hosts! There must be some
> way to fence these off but I'm just not sure how to do this.
Fencing, exactly.
What we do is create a small /shared/definitions (on gfs2) to host the
VM XML definitions and then undefine the VMs from the nodes. This makes
the servers disappear on non-cluster aware tools, like
virsh/virt-manager. Pacemaker can still start the servers just fine and
pacemaker, with fencing, makes sure that the server is only ever running
on one node at a time.
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
> Tom
We also have an active freenode IRC channel; #clusterlabs. Stop on by
and say hello. :)
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