[fedora-virt] KFT feature proposal review for F17
Anand Nande
anande at redhat.com
Thu Sep 15 13:50:32 UTC 2011
KFT (KVM Faul Tolernace):
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How it works:
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* Provide Continuous availability to Mission Critical Applications with
a 'Always Available' environment preventing any downtime or Data-loss in
the event of server-failures.
* RFT when enabled for a Virtual Machine creates a secondary copy of it
on another physical server running KVM.
* The two copies are continuously synchronized by replaying the contents
of the Memory from the primary VM to the Secondary (copy) VM. The
Primary and the Secondary VM access the same storage device (shared
storage) between the 2 servers.
* For example: If a user is playing a Youtube video on VM1, and the KVM
Guest VM-1 crashes (due to some reason), The Secondary-slave copy
becomes Active and promotes itself as Primary immediately when the
vdsm-agent (communicating between the KVM-Host and the KVM-GuestVM-1)
detects the server crash. This leads to creation of another secondary
copy on the Next available physical server (obviously sharing the same
storage with the now-active Primary-VM).
* Thus the GuestVM-2 (which was the secondary copy before the crash)
---> is now known as VM-1 (and the new secondary copy on the newly
available server is now known as VM-2).
* This can be achieved over qemu+ssh connections being managed by a
single virt-manager as well.
Advantages:
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* Zero Downtime: Fault Tolerance provides absolutely no downtime as that
comapred to HA wherein the VM restarts completely on a different server.
* Immunity from Server crashes/panic/OOM situations.
* Extremely Fast Disaster Recover Mechanism.
Disadvantages:
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* If a panic/crash takes place on the GuestVM being hosted on the KVM,
This will be replicated on its Secondary-Copy, which is being hosted on
other KVM's.
[ This can easily be avoided by having periodic snapshots of the
Primary-VM ]
Currently Available Technologies:
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* Kemari: Fault Tolerance
Xen source:
http://www.xen.org/files/xensummitboston08/tamura_xen_summit_presentation_final.pdf
KVM source:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/0/0d/0.5.kemari-kvm-forum-2010.pdf
Kemari Project: http://www.osrg.net/kemari/
Please leave your valuable feedback for this.
Sincerely,
Anand Nande
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