Redundant customized XenServer

I just finished setting my home XenServer making it fully redundant, mirrored and backup’ed. Thought, I would share what’s on it :)

- Raid1 setup on boot, grub as well as VM storage repository. If one of the hard goes down, it’ll boot from other one.
- Samba installed to have a share setup in a raid array of 700GB
- Raild alerts are configured to email me whenever there’s any issue
- Smartmontools are running to make sure that hard disks are healthy and have emails alerts configured as well.
- Auto on-the-fly backup of all virtual machines without shutting them off, every night at 1am keeping the two most recent backups of VMs all the time.

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2 Responses to “Redundant customized XenServer”

  • superkikim Says:
    January 14th, 2010 at 7:02 PM

    Hi,

    How do you handle backup of vms ? can you tell ?

    I’m looking for an alternative for VMWare Server 2 which doesn’t seem to be a good choice so far. I plan to try XenServer, but Remote VM backup on a secondary XenServer is a must for me.

  • Abbas Says:
    January 14th, 2010 at 8:50 PM

    Hi,
    There’s a Perl script available for that ‘0 downtime snapshot based XENServer 5.5 backup script’. But the one I’m using is bit modified version of it written by Filippo available here
    Yep, it allows you to backup on a remote network share such as an smb or nfs.
    The cron I’ve set to backup runs every third day of the week!

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