Thankyou very much for the information. I'm reading up on the options. Chris.
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Nicholas Solter <Nicholas.Solter at sun.com> wrote: > Chris, > > To add to Ashu's suggestion, note that the current HA Cluster binary for > OpenSolaris is Solaris Cluster Express, which runs on Solaris Express. Sun > Cluster / Open HA Cluster does not currently run on the OpenSolaris binary > distribution (OpenSolaris 2008.11 and friends), although there is work in > progress on that front. See http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/colorado/ > > Thanks, > Nick > > Ashutosh Tripathi wrote: >> >> Hi Chris, >> >> Take a look at: >> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ha-xvm/ >> >> I think what you are proposing is sensible, and pretty >> close to possible. You might be currently limited to the specific >> build of Solaris on which Open HA Cluster runs. >> >> HTH, >> -ashu >> >> Chris Fanning wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Although I have some years of experience running Linux, I'm a complete >>> OpenSolaris newbie. >>> So I'm not sure if I'm writing to the right list. >>> >>> At the moment I'm running a small Linux cluster the serves X desktops >>> to adminitrative personnel via NX. >>> Diskless nodes where the desktops run boot remotely and mount / with NFS. >>> Users connect to a node and share the OS with the other users logged >>> onto the same node. I'm not virtualizing an OS per user. >>> >>> I do use Xen to virtualize a number of servers like the node_server, >>> home_server, ldap, cups, samba, etc, etc. >>> >>> My big concern with the current setup is that _all_ of my virtual >>> servers and _all_ of my disk drives are in one box. >>> So I thought OpenSolaris could be a solution. >>> I would like to spread the virtual servers and disk drives between 2 >>> boxes with the hope that when one box dies, the cluster will keep >>> running. >>> >>> Is this list the right place for me? >>> What I'm proposing is sensible/possible? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> Chris. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ha-clusters-discuss mailing list >>> ha-clusters-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ha-clusters-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ha-clusters-discuss mailing list >> ha-clusters-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ha-clusters-discuss > >
