[one-users] Automatic recover from hardware failure

Sander Klein roedie at roedie.nl
Thu Aug 14 11:36:42 PDT 2014


Hi,

On 14.08.2014 16:20, Carlos Martín Sánchez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Johan Kooijman
> <mail at johankooijman.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm almost finished setting up the POC for ONE so far. One last
>> piece I can't really figure out is how to recreate VM's on a
>> different host in case a host fails, like hardware off the grid.
>> How would I do such a thing?
> 
> You can enable the fault tolerance hook in oned.conf [1]. This hook
> will perform the onevm delete --recreate action on the VMs of the
> failed host. To avoid false positives because of network connectivity
> issues, use the -p flag of the hook.
> 
> The delete-recreate action will create a new VM from the original
> template. This means that the VM will have a new ID, IP, and clean
> disks.
> We are working on a new mechanism for hosts with shared storage, to
> "migrate" the failed VM to a new host keeping the current IPs, disk
> state, etc.

Is there an ETA on this new mechanism? I just ran into the same problem 
today in my test setup.

Greets,

Sander


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