[clue-tech] Virtualization, GuestOS bare metal restore/reload
mike havlicek
mhavlicek1 at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 3 18:34:07 MDT 2009
It looks like an export as appliance just post OS install can be used
as a base for restoration with dump for ubuntu. Just getting ready
to try it.
My NFS is slow, I have Gbit ethernet/fibre adapters in the eServer, but not in the crusty old Compaq Proliant NFS server ... nor do I have a switch ... The crust of the Compaq led me to rig a solaris 9 kernel from
solaris 8 driver disks after giving up on trying to figure out how to
get a lousy hba driver to rejoin the 2.6 SCSI subsystem after being ejected from the 2.4 tree :)
-Mike
--- On Tue, 3/31/09, chris fedde <chris at fedde.us> wrote:
> From: chris fedde <chris at fedde.us>
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Virtualization, GuestOS bare metal restore/reload
> To: "CLUE technical discussion" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
> Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 4:16 PM
> I can say that at work we have 105
> guests running on 10 VMWare 3i hosts. All using NFS
> stores. It works great! two of the NFS servers are high
> performance NetApp and BlueArc NAS. One is a server class
> P4 running ubuntu and the kernel NFS server. All are on
> 1Gig ethernet.
>
>
> Among the many things I have not yet done is benchmark IO
> on these platforms.
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:50 AM,
> mike havlicek <mhavlicek1 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I have been poking around with the idea of virtualization.
> I have an IBM
>
> eServer xseries 360 that I have been playing with VMware
> ESX 3i demo. The immediate problem that I see is how to bare
> metal restore a geust. I suspect that add on products handle
> everything one could wish to do.
>
>
>
> The scenario I am anticipating is having to rebuild the
> hypervisor itself
>
> say on a new set of disks and then reloading the guests. I
> figure with the
>
> VMware products there is a clean way to do this sort of
> thing at full purchase prices.
>
>
>
> What I am wondering is what other alternative products
> folks have experience with handling this sort of rebuild and
> any suggestions for hosting a "hypervisor" on this
> IBM server. I am toying with the idea of using NFS mounted
> disk space from a Solaris 9 server to store VMs. I have not
> yet looked into how this would work with Xen. I do suspect
> that any
>
>
> hypervisor running under redhat or a derivative would
> require a non redhat
>
> kernel on this hardware. In theory the NFS mounted space
> works OK with ESX 3i, although taking the mounts offline
> from the NFS server threw a monkey
>
> wrench in things. (I did stop the VMs that were stored on
> the NFS mounts, prior to unsharing but I didn't put the
> hypervisor in maintenance mode (and don't know if that
> would have circumvented those VMs becoming unknown). But I
> get ahead of myself ... and further ahead what about SAN ...
> (I don't know when I will have my home SAN running :)
>
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> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Mike
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