Xen.org announced that Project Remus 0.9 is ready!
Remus provides comprehensive fault tolerance for Xen virtual machines. If the physical machine hosting your VM fails, the backup can take over instantly, as if you had migrated it to the backup at the instant before the failure occured. There’s no need for recovery, because the backup is always completely up to date. Furthermore, Remus runs completely transparently, requiring no changes to your existing guests.
Key features include:
- The backup VM is an exact copy of the primary VM. When failure happens, it continues running on the backup host as if failure had never occurred.
- The backup is completely up-to-date. Even active TCP sessions are maintained without interruption.
- Protection is transparent. Existing guests can be protected without modifying them in any way.
This release works with the tip of the xen-unstable repository, and supports PV and HVM in 32-on-32, 64-on-64, 32-on-64, and 64-on-32 configurations. It has been tested using Linux (Ubuntu) PV guests, and both Linux and Windows XP under HVM.
Stephen Spector believes that it is now ready for inclusion in Xen, and he would love to have people try it out and provide feedback.
You can find more information, including installation and usage instructions, at the web site:
http://nss.cs.ubc.ca/remus/