From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Reeted Subject: Re: Install a VM into a file or a LV ? Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:26:53 +0100 Message-ID: <4D247FAD.3080303@shiftmail.org> References: <15785B7E063D464C86DD482FCAE4EBA5012E8F22C05B@XCH11.scidom.de> <4D246D3C.8030506@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Lentes, Bernd" , "'KVM-ML (kvm@vger.kernel.org)'" To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from blade3.isti.cnr.it ([194.119.192.19]:59325 "EHLO BLADE3.ISTI.CNR.IT" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750699Ab1AEO0v (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2011 09:26:51 -0500 Received: from SCRIPT-SPFWL-DAEMON.mx.isti.cnr.it by mx.isti.cnr.it (PMDF V6.5-x5 #31825) id <01NW9PC0RS5SNG7T3M@mx.isti.cnr.it> for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:26:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from conversionlocal.isti.cnr.it by mx.isti.cnr.it (PMDF V6.5-x5 #31825) id <01NW9PBZTRR4NG7PV5@mx.isti.cnr.it> for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:26:37 +0100 (MET) In-reply-to: <4D246D3C.8030506@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/05/2011 02:08 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> My aim is that i want to create a HA-Cluster. For every service >> (currently 3) i'd like to create a VM. I want to have two >> hosts/nodes, both running SLES 11 SP1. I want to use DRBD to >> replicate the File/LV to the passive node. Do you thing that's a good >> solution ? >> > > Sure, this can work, just be sure to test it extensively. > Roll-your-own solutions often aren't. > Often aren't what? Do you consider DRBD a roll-your-own solution or a standard one? (I suppose the opposite of "roll-your-own" is "standard"...) Thank you