[one-users] Front-End node

Giancarlo De Filippis gdefilippis at ltbl.it
Tue Dec 17 06:27:17 PST 2013



Thanks very much for "rapid" answer. 

Is possible to have a doc for installation of front-end as VM in one
host (already in one cluster???) 

And.... can onenebula manage yourself (manage the vm installed in node)?


We have a shared filesystem with glusterfs 

... sorry for my english!! ;) 

Il 17/12/2013 15:10 Steven Timm ha scritto: 

> OpenNebula Frontend in a VM It can be done, but how well it performs 
> depends on what data store you 
> are using. We do it in our development OpenNebula cloud but not
> in production yet because we are using a shared image store with
> GFS2 and CLVM and it is difficult with our current situation to
> get a VM to be a member of a cluster like that, particularly since
> our fibre channel host bus adapters don't support pass-through.
> We are exploring other options for our data store as we migrate to
> OpenNebula 4 series so we can make it work more smoothly.
> 
> With NFS data store or ssh-based data store I expect you would not
> have any problems.
> 
> So right now in the meantime our high availability OpenNebula head nodes 
> run on bare metal, in an active-passive configuration, 
> using Red Hat Clustering to manage the high availability of the service.
> HA is not perfect--if one head node goes down while a VM operation is in 
> progress, the other one will not pick it up, but it's good enough for
> most thiings.
> 
> There was a High Availability guide recently published.
> 
> http://opennebula.org/documentation:archives:rel4.2:oneha [1]We were doing most of this stuff in version 3 before it was formalized in 
> the guide.
> 
> Steve Timm
> 
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Giancarlo De Filippis wrote:
> 
>> Hi all, i'd know if the front-end node can be installed in a VM (in HA mode) onto a compute-node? If yes .... there is some docs? Thanks to all.....
> 
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