What kind of cluster is this - an academic project or production quality solution?
If its former - go for manual fencing. You wont need fence device but failover wont be automatic If its later - yes you'll need fence device On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < raju.rajs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > > Hitesh, > > Please follow list guidlines. > > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Digimer <li...@alteeve.ca> wrote: > > You don't seem to be reading what I am typing. Please go back over the > > various replies and read again what I said. Follow the links and read > what > > they say. > > > > And please don't reply only to me. Click "Reply All" and include the > mailing > > list. > > > >> > >> I have a constraint of using Linux on bare machine for my 2 desktop. > > >> Can you please let me know as how can i > >> proceed...Do i have > >> to purchase > >> some sort of hardware? > > Yes. You will need to buy power fencing device -- basically a power > strip with a ethernet port > > I would strongly suggest you have two network port on each system. > > What you want to do with a cluster? > > >> > >> One more thing...till now i have used this setup: > >> > >> have Windows vista OS ---> Virtual Box---->Red Hat installed. > >> > > You have to be kidding. You are using vista on bare metal for your HA? > > >> If i download Xen or KVM can i use the same setup instead of > >> Virtual Box? > >> > >> Windows vista OS ---->Xen or KVM ---->Red Hat installed > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKI-tD0L18A > > > > >> [root@hitesh12 ~]# cat /etc/cluster/cluster.conf > >> <?xml version="1.0"?> > >> <cluster config_version="1" name="dhoni"> > > There needs to be two_node directive somewher there. Read up. > > Better yet get help of some local technical person who knows what is HA. > > It is a lot more than simple desktop install. > > Or you need to invest quite a bit of time in learning and money in > getting some extra hardware (fence devices, switches, NIC, External > storage -- if required). And dont commit for or do that on production > without knowing what you are getting into. > > If you can post more descriptively the objective of using cluster, > perhaps you will get more specific information. > > Digimer's _*excellent*_ tutorial covers more or less all that you need > to know about clusters. > > I wish I had that when I started playing around with that way back in 2007. > > -- > Regards, > > Rajagopal > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster >
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