I’m diving into a relatively new branch of the systems engineering world at the moment — setting up a high-availability virtual server cluster.
To give a sense of how new this stuff is, a fix that I need before I can even start to test the subsystem performance was checked into the Linux kernel tree on March 7th, 2007. Like, a week ago. And about 2 days before I discovered that I needed the fix.
Rather than trying to document all of it here, which would just bury my occasional babble under technical stuff, I’ve started a separate page where I’ll put all of it.
This morning I added, basically:
- What is a high-availability virtual machine cluster, anyway?
- What are all these weird terms, anyway?
(Think of that first addition as being a primer or something for the non-totally-nerdy)
Over the next couple of days (hopefully) I’ll get around to adding some of the following:
- The rough architecture
- The software that I’m intending to use
- The hardware that I’m using
- Subsystem benchmarking
- Whatever else I’ve gotten done by then