On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Michael Schwartzkopff <mi...@multinet.de> wrote: > Am Freitag, 2. Oktober 2009 13:05:42 schrieb Colin: >> >> is there any experience on using Heartbeat with a N+N cluster, i.e. a >> cluster with more than 2 nodes split over two fire-areas? >> >> As far as I can gather from the documentation, this setup has the >> problem that if one fire-area is offline, then the other fire-area >> will either stop working immediately, or as soon as one of its >> computers has a problem (I read somewhere in the documentation that > >> 50% are needed in a group of nodes to carry on, however in a two-node >> setup that would not work...?) which somehow defeats the intention of >> a fire-area to improve availability... >> > It depends on your setup. heartbeat doesn't care about quorum if there are > only two nodes in the cluster. If you have more nodes you can disable this > feature and and/or use stonith.
Is disabling the quorum a binary decision, or can I choose the percentage? > Anyway: I would advise you not to use heartbeat any more, but to upgrade to > pacemaker. We want to use pacemaker, however pacemaker in turn uses heartbeat (?) ... ... except that pacemaker can also use openais instead of heartbeat, is that what you mean? Regards, Colin _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list Linux-HA@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
