Monthly Archives:: June 2011

Clustered LVM on DRBD resource in Fedora Linux

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(Crossposted from Mirantis Official Blog) As Florian Haas has pointed out in my previous post’s comment, our shared storage configuration requires special precautions to avoid corruption of data when two hosts connected via DRBD try to manage LVM volumes simultaneously. Generally, these precautions concern locking LVM metadata operations while running DRBD in ‘dual-primary’ mode. Let’s… Read more »

OpenStack Nova: basic disaster recovery

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We have published a new blog post about handling basic issues and virtual machines recovery methods. From the blog: Today, I want to take a look at some possible issues that may be encountered while using OpenStack. The purpose of this topic is to share our experience dealing with the hardware or software failures which… Read more »

Summer of OpenStack

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Summer 2011 (or Winter 2011 for those south of the equator) is upon us and the OpenStack community is very active with appearances at a wide variety of global events. To keep you in the loop, here is a brief overview of those events currently on the calendar for OpenStack. Some of these events do… Read more »

OpenStack Glance Webinar

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Jay Pipes, Project Glance PTL and James Weir, CTO of UShareSoft.com are hosting “Future Direction and Discussion on Glance”; the webinar is scheduled for June 21, 2011 at Noon EST. To register for this webinar, please sign up at https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/schedule/display.do?udc=i5l6gkl36wsy. This webinar will provide an introduction to the project followed by an open community discussion… Read more »