On 07/01/14 10:50 -0500, David Vossel wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Digimer" <[email protected]> >> To: "General Linux-HA mailing list" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 10:19:05 AM >> Subject: [Linux-HA] Announcing a new HA KVM tutorial! >> >> Almost exactly two years ago, I released the first tutorial for building >> an HA platform for KVM VMs. In that time, I have learned a lot, created >> some tools to simplify management and refined the design to handle >> corner-cases seen in the field. >> >> Today, the culmination of that learning is summed up in the "2nd >> Edition" of that tutorial, now called "AN!Cluster Tutorial 2". >> >> https://alteeve.ca/w/AN!Cluster_Tutorial_2 >> >> These HA KVM platforms have been in production for over two years now in >> facilities all over the world; Universities, municipal governments, >> corporate DCs, manufacturing facilities, etc. I've gotten wonderful >> feedback from users and all that real-world experience has been >> integrated into this new tutorial. >> >> As always, everything is 100% open source and free-as-in-beer! >> >> The major changes are: >> >> * SELinux and iptables are enabled and used. >> * Numerous slight changes made to the OS and cluster stack configuration >> to provide better corner-case fault handling. >> >> * Architecture refinements; >> ** Redundant PSUs, UPSes and fence methods emphasized. >> ** Monitoring multiple UPSes added via modified apcupsd >> ** Detailed monitoring of LSI-based RAID controllers and drives >> ** Discussion on hardware considerations for VM performance based on >> anticipated work loads >> >> * Naming convention changes to support the new AN!CDB dashboard[1] >> ** New alert system covered with fault and notable event alerting >> >> * Wider array of guest OSes are covered; >> ** Windows 7 >> ** Windows 8 >> ** Windows 2008 R2 >> ** Windows 2012 >> ** Solaris 11 >> ** FreeBSD 9 >> ** RHEL 6 >> ** SLES 11 >> >> Beyond that, the formatting of the tutorial itself has been slightly >> modified. I do think it is the easiest to follow tutorial I have yet >> been able to produce. I am very proud of this one! :D >> >> As always, feedback is always very much appreciated. Everything from >> typos/grammar mistakes, functional problems or anything else is very >> valuable. I take all the feedback I get and use it to helping make the >> tutorials better. >> >> Enjoy! > > wow, that's a seriously awesome tutorial. Excellent work :)
Yeah, "tutorial" is sort of understatement here. -- Jan _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
