[racktables-users] Re: virtualization support
- From: "Jeroen Benda" <Jeroen.Benda@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:06:22 +0100
Hi David,
What we did was create object types VMCluster and ServerVM. We've also
added two port types VMi and VMNode. VMi links to a VMi and a VMNode
links to a VMNode. The VMCluster will now hold multiple ports of type
VMi and VMNode. VMNode are the physical nodes that service the cluster
and each physical server servicing the cluster will have a VMNode port
linking it to the cluster. The VMi nodes are the virtual machines that
are part of the cluster (and they are of type ServerVM). They will
generally speaking only have one port of type VMi which links them to
the cluster.
Hope that helps.
Jeroen
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Subject: [racktables-users] virtualization support
one item that is needed to support virtualization is the ability to
define multiple servers running on one piece of hardware (with things
like software versions, IP addresses, etc attached to the virtual server
instead of the hardware that it is running on)
even with only one server on a given piece of hardware (the
non-virtualized case), supporting this also makes it much easier to deal
with swapping out a piece of hardware that breaks as you don't have to
re-enter all the software and IP info, just say that server X is on
hardware Z instead of on hardware Y (you will have to record the
movement of the serial number, and the change in the connections)
I don't see anything in racktables to support this easily, have you guys
thought about doing something like this.
David Lang
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