VMWare on a HPC/HA cluster

[Brazen]

I'm wanting to cluster some linux machines and then install VMWare Server on the cluster. The idea is to create virtual machines that share the computing power of all the machines in the cluster.

Ideally, any machine in the cluster could go down and VMWare Server will continue running.

I've read this can be done with OpenMosix, but if I understand OpenMosix correctly, there would be a master machine that has the VMWare Server installation, and if it goes down, then the VMWare Server is gone.

I've also heard of other cluster technologies on linux: Beowulf, lvs, OpenSSI, Kerrighed, et al. I don't know much of anything about any of this though, and was hoping some people with knowledge of these technologies would have some insight as to what would be the best route to take.

 

[Woodie]

Contact VMWare. They have a way to do clustering/load balancing already.

VM in Motion? or something like that. Idea is multiple VM hosts, multiple guests. Guests run wherever there is capacity available to run them. Automagically.

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: Woodie
Contact VMWare. They have a way to do clustering/load balancing already.

VM in Motion? or something like that. Idea is multiple VM hosts, multiple guests. Guests run wherever there is capacity available to run them. Automagically.

I think you are thinking of VMotion, but VMotion is not clustering and it is not automagic. VMotion lets you _manually_ move a virtual machine from one host to another ...and hears the cool part... while the virtual machine is running!

It does not, however, do any sort of automatic failover or automatic load balancing.