Topic: High-Availability solutions

[brick]

Hi,
Are there any solutions for HA in SME?
I want to set up some kind of cluster mirroring two identical systems and provide failover.
I found some old threads about it and even a How-to but nothing for the newer versions.

Thanks,

[fpausp]

Hi,

I did a quick and dirty search and found:

http://www.linbit.com/support/drbd-8.3.7/rhel4/

or from the repos..

yum install drbd kmod-drbd --enablerepo=extras

Thats maybe helpful.

Cheers!

[Stefano]

Hi,
Are there any solutions for HA in SME?
I want to set up some kind of cluster mirroring two identical systems and provide failover.
I found some old threads about it and even a How-to but nothing for the newer versions.

Thanks,

I would suggest you to change the point of view: create a cluster with proxmox ve (search it with google, I've been asked to not link it here.. boh) and then create a virtual machine with SME

in this way you'll have hardware HA and you can recover your virtual machine in seconds/minutes..

HTH

[fpausp]

Hi Stefano,

Du you use Proxmox ?

[mdo]

I would be interested to hear some experience from those who run SMEserver on Proxmox.

We had a brief look at Proxmox only (and might have given up too early). Judging on their web presence, it appears to be a well developed and maintained product. They do have a Wiki document for an SME8 (beta 4) installation at that time which requires several manual setup changes and is a bit technical or requires good Proxmox knowledge.
They also talk about dependency problems with the php version (5.2.10) from SME8 which probably put me off - but maybe too early. I would like to find an alternative to VMware server ESXi (which works very well but has no suitable backup or UPS support in its freely available version).

[CharlieBrady]

Hi Stefano,

Du you use Proxmox ?

Stefano, do you have any financial interest in Proxmox. You mention it often, so I just wonder ...

[fpausp]

I would be interested to hear some experience from those who run SMEserver on Proxmox.

nuntium@gmx.at

[Stefano]

hi Charlie...

no, I haven't any interest in proxmox.

I think it's a very good product.. I've seen it in production.. a multinode cluster.. I've seen live migration of virtual machines, online backup.. it's easy to install, easy to manage, very reliable.. I think it's far better than esx.. and easier to maintain.. finally, it's free, OOSS and with a good community..

[mdo]

I think it's a very good product.. I've seen it in production.. a multinode cluster.. I've seen live migration of virtual machines, online backup.. it's easy to install, easy to manage, very reliable.. I think it's far better than esx.. and easier to maintain.. finally, it's free, OOSS and with a good community..

Hi Stefano

Thanks for that feedback which ticks all the boxes for me. I will definitely look into that product again.

Michael

[CharlieBrady]

no, I haven't any interest in proxmox.

Thanks for the clarification.

[brick]

Hi,
Proxmox is a nice virtualization platform that I have worked with before. But it's only good for experimentation and to serve maybe a small office.
Thank you for all the comments, I'm experimenting a few alternatives right now and will report back and if I find a solution.
Any other comments are also welcomed.

Best,

[Stefano]

Hi,
Proxmox is a nice virtualization platform that I have worked with before. But it's only good for experimentation and to serve maybe a small office.

please define, I'm just curious.. I've seen a 6 nodes cluster with many, many virtual machines and storage on a separate SAN.. I think this is not a small office

Thank you for all the comments, I'm experimenting a few alternatives right now and will report back and if I find a solution.
Any other comments are also welcomed.

Best,

You could also try the RH CLuster suite (on centOS)

HTH

[brick]

Hi Stefano,
Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into the RH Cluster solution.

About the Proxmox experience, I rather not comment since you had better results. Myself, I'll wait for version2 to try it again

Best,