This sounds really sweet, I'm definitely going to have to look into this more. It would simply pretty much everything from deployment to backups.
-carl On 10/3/06, Luis Lavena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/3/06, Scott Laird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/2/06, Luis Lavena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Ezra, one thing that still bug me is IP handling. If i have a live > > > server and decide to do a hot migration to a newer box, how it > > > manages, and how much downtime will get to the IP switches ges > > > notified of the migration? (in ms resolution) > > > > > > Or i'm forced to have a load balancer that handle the problem for me? > > > > If you're doing it right, the switches should notice within a few > > milliseconds. Any reasonable virtualization setup will have to assign > > a virtual MAC address to each virtual ethernet interface, and the MAC > > address should transfer between machines along with the rest of the > > VM. So, assuming that both machines are on the same L2 network, it's > > just a matter of the new machine sending an Ethernet frame or two out > > its interface using the virtual MAC address as the source address. To > > the switch, it'll look like the virtual server was unplugged from one > > port and plugged into the new one, which isn't a big deal. I'd be > > amazed if VMWare didn't have code in it to explicitly trip this, but > > even without it it'll happen almost instantly. > > > > Thank you for your answer Scott, I'll investigate Xen further on my > spare time the following months. > > Regards, > > > > > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > > Mongrel-users mailing list > > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > > > > > -- > Luis Lavena > Multimedia systems > - > Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, > which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that > is worthwhile. > Vince Lombardi > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
