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

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