[Xen-users] Re: Is Anybody Running Xen in Production Environment

[Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

[Please don't Cc me on posts to mailing lists -- I read the list]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 01:18:58AM +0100, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> Matthew Palmer wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 08:14:44AM -0700, Matias wrote:
> >>If so what is maintenance like?  Are you constantl
> >>having to keep a careful watch?  Does it crash
> >>often?  Run out of memory? OR is has it been
> >>a very blissful experience and your always confident
> >>that it's up and running.
> >
> >I've been quite impressed -- it's never really been a hassle.  Nagios keeps
> >an eye on things, and we're running heartbeat on redundant machines to make
> >sure that even if something goes pop we're still covered.  Even with all
> >that, I can't think of a production failure (even non-customer-impacting)
> >that has definitely been Xen's fault.
>  
> What are you using to configure your Nagios?

A text editor.  If you use hostgroups extensively as we do, it's really
simple.  We've got maybe 50 object definitions for our 600 or so service
checks.

- Matt

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