Re: [CentOS] Question about clustering

2014-06-18 Thread SilverTip257
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:46 PM, wrote: > Digimer wrote: > > On 18/06/14 12:32 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > >> Ok, fencing is a requirement for a cluster for hardware failure. > >> I've another question about this arg, but for software failure. > >> Supposing to have a cluster of httpd installa

Re: [CentOS] Question about clustering

2014-06-18 Thread m . roth
Digimer wrote: > On 18/06/14 12:32 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: >> Ok, fencing is a requirement for a cluster for hardware failure. >> I've another question about this arg, but for software failure. >> Supposing to have a cluster of httpd installation on 6 virtualized >> hosts, each one on a differ

Re: [CentOS] Question about clustering

2014-06-18 Thread Digimer
On 18/06/14 12:32 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Ok, fencing is a requirement for a cluster for hardware failure. > I've another question about this arg, but for software failure. > Supposing to have a cluster of httpd installation on 6 virtualized > hosts, each one on a different server. Suppose a

Re: [CentOS] Question about clustering

2014-06-18 Thread John R Pierce
On 6/18/2014 9:32 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Ok, fencing is a requirement for a cluster for hardware failure. > I've another question about this arg, but for software failure. > Supposing to have a cluster of httpd installation on 6 virtualized > hosts, each one on a different server. Suppose a

Re: [CentOS] Question about clustering

2014-06-18 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 17/06/2014 16:32, Digimer ha scritto: > On 17/06/14 10:23 AM, Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote: >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Digimer [mailto:li...@alteeve.ca] >>> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 3:20 PM >>> To: CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Question about clustering

2014-06-17 Thread Digimer
On 17/06/14 10:23 AM, Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Digimer [mailto:li...@alteeve.ca] >> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 3:20 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Question about clustering &

Re: [CentOS] Question about clustering

2014-06-17 Thread Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane
> -Original Message- > From: Digimer [mailto:li...@alteeve.ca] > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 3:20 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Question about clustering > > On 16/06/14 02:55 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > One can also set the cluster

Re: [CentOS] Question about clustering

2014-06-16 Thread Digimer
On 16/06/14 02:55 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Digimer wrote: >> On 16/06/14 02:19 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >>> On 6/16/2014 10:55 AM, Digimer wrote: The main downside to fabric fencing is that the failed node will have no chance of recovering without human intervention. Further, it

Re: [CentOS] Question about clustering

2014-06-16 Thread m . roth
Digimer wrote: > On 16/06/14 02:19 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 6/16/2014 10:55 AM, Digimer wrote: >>> The main downside to fabric fencing is that the failed node will have >>> no >>> chance of recovering without human intervention. Further, it places the >>> onus on the admin to not simply unfen

Re: [CentOS] Question about clustering

2014-06-16 Thread Digimer
On 16/06/14 02:19 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 6/16/2014 10:55 AM, Digimer wrote: >> The main downside to fabric fencing is that the failed node will have no >> chance of recovering without human intervention. Further, it places the >> onus on the admin to not simply unfence the node without first

Re: [CentOS] Question about clustering

2014-06-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 6/16/2014 10:55 AM, Digimer wrote: > The main downside to fabric fencing is that the failed node will have no > chance of recovering without human intervention. Further, it places the > onus on the admin to not simply unfence the node without first doing > proper cleanup/recovery. For these reas

Re: [CentOS] Question about clustering

2014-06-16 Thread Digimer
On 16/06/14 01:36 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 6/16/2014 2:39 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: >> Hi Digimer, >> there is a chance to make fencing without hardware, but only software? > > the most common fence in TCP connected systems is to disable the > ethernet ports of the fenced system, done via a

Re: [CentOS] Question about clustering

2014-06-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 6/16/2014 2:39 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Hi Digimer, > there is a chance to make fencing without hardware, but only software? the most common fence in TCP connected systems is to disable the ethernet ports of the fenced system, done via a 'smart ethernet switch'. if you're using shared

Re: [CentOS] Question about clustering

2014-06-16 Thread Digimer
No. For fencing to be worthwhile, it *must* work when the node is in any state. For this, it must be independent of node. A great way to see why is to test crashing the node (echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger) or simply cutting the power to the node. With the node totally disabled, the surviving pee

Re: [CentOS] Question about clustering

2014-06-16 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Hi Digimer, there is a chance to make fencing without hardware, but only software? Il 15/06/2014 17:28, Digimer ha scritto: > On 15/06/14 08:54 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: >> Another question is about fencing. I've ridden that a cluster must have >> fencing to be considered as such. On CentOS 6.5

Re: [CentOS] Question about clustering

2014-06-15 Thread Digimer
On 15/06/14 08:54 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Another question is about fencing. I've ridden that a cluster must have > fencing to be considered as such. On CentOS 6.5 there is stonith that > concerns node level fencing. For this type of fencing I must have ilo, > ilom, drac, and other. It's poss

[CentOS] Question about clustering

2014-06-15 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Hi list, I'm new to clustering, and I'm running a little cluster@home. The cluster is running on a workstation hardware and running on Centos 6.5. Component: corosync, pacemaker, drbd and pcs. All works good. This cluster has different resources: 1) drbd0 2) drbd1 3) drbd0_fs 4) drbd1_fs 5) pgs