[PVE-User] Moving from XenServer to Proxmox... slowly

[Gerald Brandt]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kurt Bauer" <kurt.bauer at univie.ac.at>
> To: "Gerald Brandt" <gbr at majentis.com>
> Cc: pve-user at pve.proxmox.com
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 9:18:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [PVE-User] Moving from XenServer to Proxmox... slowly
> 
> 
> 
> Gerald Brandt schrieb:

> >
> > Any performance issues?
> In which regard?

Noticable slowdowns/or speed ups on disk IO or memory, etc?


> 
> >
> > Gerald
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Kurt Bauer" <kurt.bauer at univie.ac.at>
> >> To: "Gerald Brandt" <gbr at majentis.com>
> >> Cc: pve-user at pve.proxmox.com
> >> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 8:42:54 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [PVE-User] Moving from XenServer to Proxmox... slowly
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> we did pretty much the same thing over the past weeks, ie.
> >> changing
> >> fom
> >> XEN to KVM (Proxmox) reusing the hardware already in place and
> >> production. But we didn't went down the 2-Node cluster road, what
> >> we
> >> did
> >> instead was, that we used an old server machine as a third node,
> >> just
> >> for the sake of quorum and not having to deal with all the
> >> problems,
> >> that may occur on a 2-Node cluster. No guests on that machine and
> >> as
> >> soon as the 3rd production machine was free, we added it to the
> >> cluster
> >> and removed the old one.
> >> I guess performance is not an issue for that 3rd machine, as long
> >> as
> >> it
> >> has no guests.
> >>
> >> Hope that helps a little,
> >> best regards,
> >> Kurt
> >>
> >> Gerald Brandt schrieb:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> We've pretty much made the decision to move from Citrix XenServer
> >>> to KVM (Proxmox) for our Virtual solution.  Unfortunately, I
> >>> don't
> >>> have all the computers available to me at the start, since
> >>> migration will use the existing XenServer computers.
> >>>
> >>> To start, I'll have two servers, using a single iSCSI, in an HA
> >>> cluster.  Once they are running and some of the virtual machines
> >>> are migrated, I can add a third server.  Finally, I can add the
> >>> fourth server.
> >>>
> >>> Is there anything I need to look out for when creating the 2
> >>> server
> >>> HA cluster and then converting it to a 3 and 4 node cluster?
> >>> Has anyone done this, and created a HOWTO I can follow?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Gerald
> >>>
> >>> ps: Been using Citrix XenServer since Jan 2009.  We've had enough
> >>> issues with VM disk corruption to haunt me for year (using
> >>> LVMoveriSCSI).  It's a bloody house of cards.
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