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Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud. We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
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Building a Virtual Many-to-One HA Cluster for Open Source Web & Mail
Building a Virtual Many-to-One HA Cluster for Open Source Web & Mail

When building highly available clusters one often chooses for 1 extra physical machine per service, hence creating an A-B fail-over schema. As the number of primary servers grows, your number of secondary servers grows accordingly. More complex setups have a many (N) to 1 fail-over schema. In this session we'll discuss how to solve the complex setup of a N to 1 fail-over by virtualising all the secondary machines on 1 physical machine using the Xen Hy ervisor. We will show how we integrated a standard Linux-HA framework with GFS and added a virtualization layer to it, and we'll discuss do's and don'ts when building a Virtual  Cluster. Apart  from that we'll also document how while deploying such an infrastructure we also succeeded in passing the 10th floor test.

About Kris Buytaert
Kris Buytaert is Founder and CTO of X-Tend, the leading Open Source integrator in Belgium. He has consulting and development experience with multiple enterprise clients and government agencies. Kris is maintainer of the openMosix HOWTO and frequently speaks at different international conferences.

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