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
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