GlusterFS in High Availability Clusters

Posted on Thu 08 November 2012 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, GlusterFS • 1 min read

My Pacemaker presentation from the GlusterFS Workshop at LinuxCon Europe 2012. Presented in Barcelona in November of 2012, this is a overview of integrating GlusterFS with the Pacemaker cluster stack.

This tutorial gives an overview of

  • The Pacemaker stack,
  • Using GlusterFS for Pacemaker storage,
  • Managing GlusterFS volumes from Pacemaker.

My …


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Hands-On With Ceph

Posted on Thu 08 November 2012 in presentations • Tagged with Ceph, Conference • 1 min read

My Ceph tutorial from LinuxCon Europe 2012. Presented in Barcelona in November of 2012, this is a dense summary of the features of the Ceph distributed storage stack.

This tutorial gives an overview of

  • Native RADOS object storage,
  • The RBD block device,
  • ReSTful object storage with radosgw,
  • the Ceph distributed …

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Migrating virtual machines from block-based storage to RADOS/Ceph

Posted on Mon 22 October 2012 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Ceph, libvirt • 5 min read

Ceph allows you to replace existing SAN storage (or SAN drop-in substitutes) with a flexible storage solution with real scale-out capabilities. Here is how you migrate existing virtual machines managed by libvirt from block-based storage to a Ceph based storage solution.

Prerequisites

What you’ll need in order to successfully …


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Maintenance in active Pacemaker clusters

Posted on Mon 24 September 2012 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Pacemaker • 3 min read

In a Pacemaker cluster, as in a standalone system, operators must complete maintenance tasks such as software upgrades and configuration changes. Here’s what you need to keep Pacemaker’s built-in monitoring features from creating unwanted side effects.

Maintenance mode

This is quite possibly Pacemaker’s single most useful feature …


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High Availability in OpenStack

Posted on Thu 30 August 2012 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, OpenStack • 1 min read

An update on high-availability development during the OpenStack Folsom development cycle. This presentation was delivered August 30, 2012 in San Diego, California. It was part of the inaugural CloudOpen conference hosted by the Linux Foundation.

Following up on my earlier talks at OpenStack Summit and OSCON, I summarized the high-availability …


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