[ale] Opinions for a two node Active-Passive/Failover System.

[lists at serioustechnology.com (Geoffrey Myers)]

On 10/20/2010 04:54 PM, C Hendry wrote:
> Opinions for a two node Active-Passive/Fail-over System.
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> Preferences:
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> 1. I?d like to use a dedicated NIC with cross-over cable for the
> heartbeat messages.
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> 2. I?d like the ability to power fence (STONITH) using IPMI enabled
> motherboards over ethernet.
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> Have been looking at Redhat Cluster Suite.
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> I understand that a lot of people define a cluster to be a system of 3
> or more nodes and no less.
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> RHCS does appear well tested, but appears not to be able to do
> preference #1.
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> Have been looking at Heart-beat with Pacemaker.
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> Looks to be what I want so far.
>
> What are others using?

Have client who uses RH cluster suite.  Red Hat recommends a minimum of 
2 nodes.  They acknowledge that you can have issues with a 2 node 
configuration.

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