[Lustre-discuss] Virtualization and Lustre

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

Hi,
On Friday 21 May 2010 05:03:20 am Tyler Hawes wrote:
> Has there been any testing or conclusions regarding the use of
> virtualization and Lustre, or is this even possible considering how Lustre
> is coded? I've gotten used to the idea of virtualization for all our other
> servers, where it is great to know we can mount the image on another host
> very quickly if a hardware problem brings down a machine, and it seems the
> same would be nice with Lustre...
I do this for the MGS and MDS hosts in our cluster on SLES 11. Just took the 
xen kernel and applied the patches and built rpms like it is described in the 
manual. 
My OSS servers are configured with lustre failover on physical machines, 
managed by pacemaker.

cheers,
Sebastian