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
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.
I've spent the past couple months tinkering with tools for high-availability
and virtualization; what seems tantalizingly possible is this setup:
- Two multi-core systems with two NIC cards and 4-6 SATA drives, 16-32GB of RAM.
- Xen or VirtualBox virtualization.
- Two ethernet switches, at least
