[ClusterLabs] Antw: Re: design of a two-node cluster

Ulrich Windl Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de
Tue Dec 8 09:02:30 UTC 2015


>>> "Lentes, Bernd" <bernd.lentes at helmholtz-muenchen.de> schrieb am 08.12.2015 um
09:13 in Nachricht <00a901d13190$5c6db3c0$15491b40$@helmholtz-muenchen.de>:
> Digimer wrote:
> 
>> >>> Should I install all vm's in one partition or every vm in a seperate
>> >>> partition ? The advantage of one vm per partition is that I don't
>> >>> need a cluster fs, right ?
>> >>
>> >> I would put each VM on a dedicated LV and not have an FS between
>> the
>> >> VM and the host. The question then becomes; What is the PV? I use
>> >> clustered LVM to make sure all nodes are in sync, LVM-wise.
>> >
>> > Is this the setup you are running (without fs) ?
>> 
>> Yes, we use DRBD to replicate the storage and use the /dev/drbdX
>> device as the clustered LVM PV. We have one VG for the space (could
>> add a new DRBD resource later if needed...) and then create a dedicated
>> LV per VM.
>> We have, as I mentioned, one small LV formatted with gfs2 where we
>> store the VM's XML files (so that any change made to a VM is
>> immediately available to all nodes.
>> 
> 
> How can i migrate my current vm's ? They are stored in raw files (one or
> two).
> How do I transfer them to a naked lv ?

For migration the image must be available on both nodes (thus gfs2).

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> Bernd
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