On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:12:00PM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: > Basically I'm looking at two Xen server boxes, physically wide spread, > each with multiple virtual servers, that I need to keep synchronised and > monitored such that when a virtual server falls over then its compatriot > on the other box gets transparently brought on line, or when a box > itself falls over (and hence all of its virtual servers) then all of the > compatriot servers take over.
DRBD of the LVs on both machines will keep the machines completely in sync, and heartbeat will provide the failover detection and execution. The geographical dispersion could cause a problem, though. How are you planning on addressing the IP redirection issue? - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
