Re: VIrtualization HA challenge

2011-05-02 Thread Tom Metro
Rich Braun wrote: My goal is basically to be able to walk into anyone's data center with a set of well-tested tools that provide compelling HA and monitoring capability without all the equipment/software expense of the VMware solution... My interest is in being able to set up mini clouds for

Re: VIrtualization HA challenge

2011-05-02 Thread Richard Pieri
Expanding clouds isn't HA. Failover clusters isn't HA. The AWS outage a couple of weeks ago is demonstrable proof of that. HA is a process. HA is a design philosophy. This blog post is a few months old now, but it is worth reading specifically because of the AWS outage a few weeks ago.