Anvil! m2 Tutorial
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Warning: This tutorial is NOT complete! It is being written using Striker version 1.2.0 β. Things may change between now and final release. |
What is an 'Anvil!', Anyway?
Simply put;
- The Anvil! is a high-availability cluster platform for hosting virtual machines.
Slightly less simply put;
- The Anvil! is;
- Exceptionally easy to build and operate.
- A pair of "nodes" that work as one to host one or more highly-available (virtual) servers in a manner transparent to the servers.
- Hosted servers can live-migrate between nodes, allowing business-hours maintenance of all systems without downtime.
- Existing expertise and work-flow are almost 100% maintained requiring almost no training for staff and users.
- A "Foundation Pack" of fault-tolerant network switches, switched PDUs and UPSes. Each Foundation pack can support one or more "Compute Pack" node pairs.
- A pair of "Striker" dashboard management and support systems which provide very simple, web-based management on the Anvil! and it's hosted servers.
- A "Scan Core" monitoring and alert system tightly couple to all software and hardware systems that provides fault detection, predictive failure analysis, and environmental monitoring with an early-warning system.
- Optionally, "Scan Core" can automatically, gracefully shut down an Anvil! and it's hosted servers in low-battery and over-temperature events as well as automatically recovery when safe to do so.
- Optional commercial supported with 24x7x365 monitoring, installation, management and customization services.
- 100% open source (GPL v2+ license) with HA systems built to be compliant with Red Hat support.
- No vendor lock-in.
- Entirely COTS equipment, entirely open platform. You are always free to shift vendors at any time.
Pretty darn impressive, really.
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