Reliable, Redundant, Resilient: High Availability in OpenStack

Posted on Fri 20 April 2012 in presentations • Tagged with OpenStack

I explain the high availability features in the upcoming OpenStack Folsom release at the OpenStack Conference Spring 2012. This presentation was delivered April 21, 2012 in San Francisco, California.


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Storage Replication in High-Performance High-Availability Environments

Posted on Mon 19 March 2012 in presentations • Tagged with DRBD, Flashcache, Pacemaker, Performance

At linux.conf.au 2012, Florian I this presentation on the integration of DRBD, Flashcache and Pacemaker in the High Availability and Distributed Storage miniconf.

In this 30-minute presentation, I explore the benefits of Flashcache for replicated storage. Flashcache, originally developed at Facebook, is a general purpose, block level cache …


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Roll Your Own Cloud

Posted on Mon 19 March 2012 in presentations • Tagged with DRBD, KVM, libvirt, Pacemaker

Tim Serong and I explore the capabilities of KVM, iSCSI, DRBD and Pacemaker to create a fully open-source enterprise cloud.

Shot at linux.conf.au 2011 in Brisbane, this is me babbling, and Tim live-cartooning to the delight of the audience.


This article originally appeared on the hastexo …


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The Zen of Pacemaker

Posted on Tue 13 March 2012 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, Pacemaker

I team up with Tim Serong and Andrew Beekhof for a tutorial at linux.conf.au 2012.


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Fencing and Maintaining Sanity in High-Availability Clusters

Posted on Tue 01 November 2011 in presentations • Tagged with Conference

A 45-minute talk I co-presented with Madison Kelly at Linuxcon Europe 2011 in Prague. We explain the purpose of fencing, options for implementing fencing, and common pitfalls.

This presentation rounded out a series of high-availability talks at Linuxcon Europe 2011, the first Linuxcon event hosted by the Linux Foundation in …


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