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[netbone]

Hi. I have now built a cluster with this great software based on 6 servers. No I'm asking myself what the sense of the cluster is.

I can create hosts on every server, but as I thought a cluster should have one master and different nodes. All VPS should be created on the master only and then replicated on the nodes. So when one engine crashs I can simply replace with hotplug.

Additional they should share processor power and memory.

But now I'm thinking about what happens when the master is crashing and it seems they don't share processor power.

Did I understand anything wrong?

Btw. is it possible to add USB storrages by using webpanel in future releases?

 

[tom]

Hi. I have now built a cluster with this great software based on 6 servers. No I'm asking myself what the sense of the cluster is.

I can create hosts on every server, but as I thought a cluster should have one master and different nodes. All VPS should be created on the master only and then replicated on the nodes. So when one engine crashs I can simply replace with hotplug.

Additional they should share processor power and memory.

But now I'm thinking about what happens when the master is crashing and it seems they don't share processor power.

Did I understand anything wrong?

Btw. is it possible to add USB storrages by using webpanel in future releases?

see this wiki page about the current cluster features:
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_Cluster

VM´s are not replicated. Take a look on our roadmap. In future releases NAS/SAN will be supported - then you can think of starting a VM on another node (if one node failed).

USB: what do you mean exactly - USB as storage for VM´s or USB devices for KVM guests?

 

[apz]

Hi. I have now built a cluster with this great software based on 6 servers. No I'm asking myself what the sense of the cluster is.

I can create hosts on every server, but as I thought a cluster should have one master and different nodes. All VPS should be created on the master only and then replicated on the nodes. So when one engine crashs I can simply replace with hotplug.

I do not think that this makes sense when all VMs are distributed to all Nodes. In your case, 5 Servers may crash. But when 5 of your 6 Servers will crash, you might have other Problems
(Flooding, Tornado, Monster,... remember the good old Sim City )

Additional they should share processor power and memory.

But now I'm thinking about what happens when the master is crashing and it seems they don't share processor power.

Hmm, in my opinion, the Cluster feature on proxmox ve is more some kind of "(manually) load balance cluster" than "high performance cluster"

Did I understand anything wrong?

hmm, a little bit

BUT: A HA feature and/or "automated VM Node-to-Node-sync" feature would be nice...

APZ