On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Soh Kam Yung <[email protected]> wrote: > [http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/11/2246226/Remus-Project-Brings-Transparent-High-Availability-To-Xen] > [http://dsg.cs.ubc.ca/remus/] > > ===== > Technology: Remus Project Brings Transparent High Availability To Xen > on Wednesday November 11, @05:48PM > Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 11, @05:48PM > from the when-servers-go-south-a-song dept. > > An anonymous reader writes "The Remus project has just been > incorporated into the Xen hypervisor. Developed at the University of > British Columbia, Remus provides a thin layer that continuously > replicates a running virtual machine onto a second physical host. > Remus requires no modifications to the OS or applications within the > protected VM: on failure, Remus activates the replica on the second > host, and the VM simply picks up where the original system died. Open > TCP connections remain intact, and applications continue to run > unaware of the failure. It's pretty fun to yank the plug out on your > web server and see everything continue to tick along. This sort of HA > has traditionally required either really expensive hardware, or very > complex and invasive modifications to applications and OSes." > ===== > --
Hi, We had a discussion about this last week, but it seems to me that libvirt is able to provide the same level of HA. What's your experience about this? Cheers, Sylvain _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]
