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Get step-by-step details to implement Xen virtual server high availability via the IBM® System Director Virtual Availability Manager. The Virtual Availability Manager is included in the IBM System Director Virtualization Manager package, an extension for IBM Director. In this article, the authors walk you through all the steps, from prerequisites and setup to troubleshooting—everything you need to get started delivering virtual high availability capabilities.

These steps help you implement Xen virtual server high availability using the IBM System Director Virtual Availability Manager. These steps are based on IBM Blade Server HS21 and IBM Storage DS4300.

Prerequisites

To start, you need three HS21 blade servers that have been installed with SUSE Linux 10 SP1. The shared storage should be configured for two of the three blade servers, blade2 and blade3, and the shared storage space should be bigger than 19GB.

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