Subject: Re: [vserver] HA vserver in an active/active configuration
From: Martin Fick <mogulguy@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 18:41:14 -0800 (PST)

--- Christian Balzer <chibi@gol.com> wrote:
> 2 hosts, shared storage (SAN, DRBD, iSCSI, it
> doesn't really matter) 
> and Linux HA aka heartbeat as a CRM. The obvious
> goal is to have the
> vservers on host A to fail over to B if need be. 
> The equally obvious problem is that util-vserver is
> expecting the configs
> in /etc/vservers and the vserver command has no
> command line option to
> specify the config directory. 
> Am I interpreting things correctly that the only
> feasible solution to 
> this will be a symlink farm? The servers will be
> brought up by a 
> custom script within heartbeat, which will not
> attempt to fire up
> vservers that are not currently local to the host,
> preventing utter
> confusion. The actual configs that are being
> symlinked to will be on
> shared storage.
> Can anybody thing of something more elegant than
> this?

You might find some extra hints here:

 http://linux-vserver.org/Fail-over

-Martin



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