5–9 May 2008
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

A redundant Servercluster using SL5.1 and Xen

8 May 2008, 11:45
30m
503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

503/1-001 - Council Chamber

CERN

Route de Meyrin CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland
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HEPiX "bazaar and thinktank" HEPiX "bazaar and thinktank"

Speaker

Klaus Steinberger (LMU München)

Description

Howto build a redundant (failover) Servercluster using Scientific Linux 5.1 with Xen. The services (filer, dns, dhcp, printing etc.) will be divided into individual virtual machines to isolate the services. On failure of a server, the services will be relocated automatically. The system is using a redundant Fibrechannel storage as the shared storage, but same would be possible using other techniques. The talk shows the architecture of the system, as well as some problems we found both in the SL Clustersoftware and SL's Xen Implementation and how we avoid them.

Primary author

Klaus Steinberger (LMU München)

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