On 03/08/2021 10:40, Antony Stone wrote:
On Tuesday 11 May 2021 at 12:56:01, Strahil Nikolov wrote:

Here is the example I had promised:

pcs node attribute server1 city=LA
pcs node attribute server2 city=NY

# Don't run on any node that is not in LA
pcs constraint location DummyRes1 rule score=-INFINITY city ne LA

#Don't run on any node that is not in NY
pcs constraint location DummyRes2 rule score=-INFINITY city ne NY

The idea is that if you add a node and you forget to specify the attribute
with the name 'city' , DummyRes1 & DummyRes2 won't be started on it.

For resources that do not have a constraint based on the city -> they will
run everywhere unless you specify a colocation constraint between the
resources.

Excellent - thanks.  I happen to use crmsh rather than pcs, but I've adapted
the above and got it working.

Unfortunately, there is a problem.

My current setup is:

One 3-machine cluster in city A running a bunch of resources between them, the
most important of which for this discussion is Asterisk telephony.

One 3-machine cluster in city B doing exactly the same thing.

The two clusters have no knowledge of each other.

I have high-availability routing between my clusters and my upstream telephony
provider, such that a call can be handled by Cluster A or Cluster B, and if
one is unavailable, the call gets routed to the other.

Thus, a total failure of Cluster A means I still get phone calls, via Cluster
B.


To implement the above "one resource which can run anywhere, but only a single
instance", I joined together clusters A and B, and placed the corresponding
location constraints on the resources I want only at A and the ones I want
only at B.  I then added the resource with no location constraint, and it runs
anywhere, just once.

So far, so good.


The problem is:

With the two independent clusters, if two machines in city A fail, then
Cluster A fails completely (no quorum), and Cluster B continues working.  That
means I still get phone calls.

With the new setup, if two machines in city A fail, then _both_ clusters stop
working and I have no functional resources anywhere.


So, my question now is:

How can I have a 3-machine Cluster A running local resources, and a 3-machine
Cluster B running local resources, plus one resource running on either Cluster
A or Cluster B, but without a failure of one cluster causing _everything_ to
stop?

Yes, it's called geo-clustering (multi-site) - https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/configuring_and_managing_high_availability_clusters/assembly_configuring-multisite-cluster-configuring-and-managing-high-availability-clusters

(ignore doc being for RHEL, other distributions with booth will work same way)

Regards,
  Honza



Thanks,


Antony.


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