Virtual Machine Replication & Failover with VMWare Server & Debian Etch (4.0)

“This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions about how to
create a highly available VMware Server environment on a Debian
Etch system. With this tutorial, you will be able to create Virtual
Machines that will be available on multiple systems with
failover/failback capabilities.

“The system is based using components of ‘The High Availability
Linux Project,’ namely ‘DRBD’ and ‘Heartbeat.’ The free open-source
edition of DRBD will only allow a 2-node active/passive
environment, so this is not for large businesses!. Also, the
heartbeat/drbd setup configured in this tutorial, is by using 2
Ethernet NIC’s. I recommend that at least the nic to be used for
DRBD replication (eth1 in this tutorial) is 1Gbit or more…”

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