Published the following announcement earlier this morning on the FreeBSD Announce mailing list.
OpenSVC has is now available for FreeBSD
OpenSVC is a GPLv2 project automating the low-level operations needed 1) to bring up system resources (virtual machine container, ip, disk groups, filesystem mounts, application launchers) on a node and 2) to replicate data to secondary nodes (in local or remote sites). OpenSVC can be coupled to a tiers heartbeat daemon to form a full failover clustering stack.
OpenSVC offers a simple service start/stop/status/sync* command line interface.
OpenSVC can be deployed to drive all types of service on all major operating systems, and drive best-of-breed replication strategies available on users’ sites : rsync+snap, zfs, netapp, emc, drbd.
Generalized usage of OpenSVC brings easy group-actions in an heterogeneous datacenter, like those needed for disaster recovery plan activation, or a more localized outage.
The FreeBSD port is fresh and done by newcomers in this world, so community comments are welcome, particularly on the following topics:
- ‘tbz’ packaging.
- Only zfs pools are supported as “disk group” resources. Support for GEOM disk aggregations might be added, if there is Community interest.
- Jail support. OpenSVC does not care about provisioning, but I hope I got the start/stop stuff right.
- Opensvc startup script.
- The port has been done on FreeBSD 8.
Feedback on what breaks on older release is welcome. More information is available on the OpenSVC site.
