I'm running commercial CP 4.5 Hotfix 3 and we're about to deploy a second site.
I've been searching the CP and CS docs and mailing list for some of the
pitfalls and haven't found a lot of information so I'm jumping in here with
some questions. I'd love to learn from those who've done it already.
Our current environment looks like:
* 6-host XenServer 6.2 SP1 cluster in a single pod/zone.
* Two management servers and a DB master/slave in the same datacenter as
the compute.
* iSCSI primary storage, NFS secondary.
We've got a brand new XenServer 6.5 cluster ready to go in our second
datacenter with a high-bandwidth redundant link to the first DC. We intend to
create a second zone in the new facility and leave management in the first one
for now. I've got the following questions I was hoping for some wisdom on:
* Do I need to seed the system VM template to the NFS secondary storage in
the new zone before I create the zone, or does it get copied from the first
zone SS when creating the second?
* Is it possible to copy templates between zones directly without
export/import?
* Our eventual goal is S3 region-wide secondary storage later in the year.
Has anybody done the conversion successfully? My lab tests have been
challenging against a RiakCS backend, with a successful API call for the
conversion, but failing snapshot copies from XenServer to S3. The lab was on
XenServer 6.5 - I haven't tried 6.2SP1 with S3.
Thanks,
Chris
