One other point - the two NFS Servers are on different CEC's/LPARs for availability and the storage may not be share-able .
but yes - it is an HA cluster Thanks Lionel Lionel B. Dyck <>< z/Linux Specialist IBM Corporation Global Technology Services - Kaiser Account Work: 925-926-5332 E-Mail: ld...@us.ibm.com AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck | GTalk: lbdyck From: Mark Post <mp...@novell.com> To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Date: 08/04/2010 01:37 PM Subject: Re: NFS and AutoFS - a how to question Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu> >>> On 8/4/2010 at 04:30 PM, Lionel Dyck <ld...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Here is a scenario that I was just asked about: > > NFS Server A exports /data > NFS Server B exports /data > Several client servers mount /data > > The questions are: > > How to keep NFS Server A and B in sync > On the client servers, if NFS Server A is down, how to mount /data from > NFS Server B (and vice versa) You're looking at an HA cluster using shared storage between the two NFS servers, and VIPA to provide the clients with a single IP address/DNS name to access. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
