NCS has better integration with EVMS, and has data-network heartbeat. It does not therefore require STONITH.
It has had much more testing than HB for large clusters as well. 20+ node clusters are not uncommon. Yan Sander van Vugt wrote: > Hi, > > Just like to know your opinion about the following. A pure Linux shop > would of course definitely go for Heartbeat as the solution for high > availability. However, in an environment that comes from Novell's > NetWare, Novell Cluster Services (NCS) would be the best choice, > especially if running OESv1 that runs on top of SUSE Linux Enterprise > Server (SLES) 9. Now in the upcoming Open Enterprise Server 2, which > runs on top of SLES 10, it appears that customers do have a choice > between Heartbeat from the SLES stack, or NCS from the OES stack. Does > anyone have thoughts about that? For example, when clustering something > like Novell GroupWise in a shop that wants to implement OESv2 later this > year, to me personally, Heartbeat seems the better choice, since it has > much more features. What I'd like to know, is there any particular > reason why in the upcoming OESv2 one would still choose NCS? (Except for > backward compatibility of course) > > Thanks, > Sander > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
