Proxmox high availability : introduce, design, and implement high availability clusters using Proxmox / Simon M.C. Cheng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheng, Simon M. C., author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beowulf clusters (Computer systems).

Parallel processing (Electronic computers).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If you want to know the secrets of virtualization and how to implement high availability on your services, this is the book for you. For those of you who are already using Proxmox, this book offers you the chance to build a high availability cluster with a distributed filesystem to further protect your system from failure.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Basic Concepts of Proxmox Virtual Environment; Introduction to Proxmox Virtual Environment; Introduction to server virtualization; Server virtualization basics - guest versus host; Comparing types of server virtualization software; Comparison table of hypervisors; Basic administration on Proxmox VE; Uploading the OS template or the ISO file to Proxmox; Creating an OpenVZ-based virtual machine; Creating a kernel-based virtual machine; Accessing the new virtual machine

Virtualization options explained in Proxmox VEVirtual disk options under Proxmox VE; Introducing the OpenVZ template; Summary; Chapter 2: Getting Started with a High Availability (HA) Environment; What is High Availability (HA) environment?; What is availability?; Negative effects of system downtime; Strategies to achieve High Availability (HA); Introducing a Proxmox VE cluster; Introduction to DRBD; Explaining live migration; Introducing the post-copy memory migration; Introducing the pre-copy memory migration; System requirements for the Proxmox cluster; Describing the requirements for RAID

The RAID 0 operationThe RAID 1 operation; The RAID 10 operation; HA capability for Proxmox with a two-node cluster; The Proxmox Cluster file system (pmxcfs); Summary; Chapter 3: Key Components for Building a Proxmox VE Cluster; Key component 1 - shared storage; Characteristics of SAN and NAS; Available storage options in Proxmox; Storage option 1 - storage over iSCSI; Storage option 3 - the Gluster filesystem; Storage option 2 - a distributed replicated block device (DRBD); Storage option 4 - the Ceph filesystem; Comparing types of file storage supported by Proxmox

Key component 2 - reliable networkKey component 3 - a fencing device; What is a fencing device?; Available fencing device options; Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI); Simple network management protocol (SNMP); Key component 4 - quorum disk; Summary; Chapter 4: Configuring a Proxmox VE Cluster; Configuring a network for a Proxmox VE cluster; Building a network with redundancy; Building a separate network for the Proxmox VE cluster; Introducing Proxmox's network options; Introducing the VLAN structure; Creating an infrastructure for a Proxmox cluster testing environment

The concept of a quorum deviceThe concept of a bonding device; The concept of DRBD; Preparing a network for a Proxmox cluster; Preparing storage for a Proxmox cluster; Preparing iSCSI shared storage with NAS4free for the quorum device; Basic concepts of an iSCSI device; Configuring a Proxmox VE cluster; Forming a two-node cluster with DRBD; Installing and configuring DRBD; Creating an LVM volume based on DRBD shared storage; Network fencing with a Cisco switch via SNMP; Building a Gluster filesystem for a Proxmox cluster; Building a Ceph filesystem for a Proxmox cluster

Mounting a Ceph device as shared storage

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 13, 2014).

ISBN:

9781783980895

1783980893

OCLC:

894628632