Ed Sanborn schrieb:
I am intrigued by this thread. I am using RH Advanced Platform version
5.2. I have an 8-node cluster
running on an IBM Bladecenter. For those that may not be familiar with
the IBM Bladecenter the blades have 2 NICs
on them and the Bladecenter chassis has a Nortel switch that the NIC’s
connect to. I am using both NIC’s plugged
into two segments of my LAN. One of them is being used for the
multicast heartbeat traffic. It works BUT occasionally
my network has serious disruptions due to this being a
telecommunications company and the engineers are
always doing something to loop the network and/or saturate the network
with broadcasts taking down the
subnet that my heartbeat traffic is on. Sometimes when this happens
the network is so bad
that the multicast traffic is affected and I lose quorum on the
cluster. Once I fix the network problem I need
to restart each node to get the cluster back up and running. Not good
and not the correct design.
I would love to NOT use a public NIC for the multicast/heartbeat
traffic. I tried to setup virtual interfaces and
VLAN those in the Nortel switch and moving the multicast/heartbeat
traffic over to them, leaving the 2 NICS on the original LAN segments
they were on but even with IBM assistance we were unsuccessful. Does
anyone have any experience
with this? I want to do this to truly isolate the heartbeat network to
eliminate any possibility for network congestion
taking down the cluster and also because I do not want the multicast
traffic pumped all over the LAN.
What I do not understand at the moment: If you can afford to restrict
one of every blade's two interfaces to cluster communication, why don't
you put them into a VLAN (the real interfaces, not virtual ones) and see
to it that the VLAN has not connection to any outside network?
Then the engineers would have no means of flooding your cluster
communication subnet.
Dirk
Thanks,
Ed
(978) 210-9855
*From:* linux-cluster-boun...@redhat.com
[mailto:linux-cluster-boun...@redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Kumar, Ashish
*Sent:* Monday, February 01, 2010 12:53 PM
*To:* Fagnon Raymond; linux clustering
*Subject:* Re: [Linux-cluster] heartbeat
I don’t have any nics that I can dedicate for a cross over cable
for heartbeat so I was thinking I could use the serial or the
network itself. Is it possible to just use the primary interface
for heartbeat since it is my understanding it is nothing more than
a ping.
You don't need to dedicate a NIC for heartbeat with Red Hat Cluster.
Unlike Linux-HA, RHCS makes use of multicast to communicate with other
nodes. The multicast IP address is assigned by RHCS automatically, so
you don't need to do any special configuration.
Please have a look at this:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Cluster_Administration/s1-multicast-considerations-CA.html
For setup instructions, check this:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Cluster_Administration/s1-general-prop-conga-CA.html
- Section 3 deals with Multicast address settings
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