Overview¶
No host or service is absolutely reliable; we experience failures across various areas every day. To avoid the down-time and the consequent damages, we try to avoid a single point of failure by running several instances of the same service. Failure of one instance doesn’t mean complete service unavailability, as there are other instances that can handle the workload. Such deployment is highly available and resilient to partial failure.
OpenNebula provides high availability mechanisms both for the Front-end and for the Virtual Machines.
How Should I Read This Chapter¶
Before starting, you need to have OpenNebula Front-end running.
Read the section Front-end HA Setup to learn how to set up a highly available (HA) OpenNebula Front-end. Continue with Virtual Machines High Availability if you are interested in a way to provide high availability to your Virtual Machines.
Hypervisor Compatibility¶
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This section applies to all hypervisors. |
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This section applies only to KVM, LXC and Firecracker. |