Re: [Linux-cluster] Looking for guidance

2010-02-22 Thread Kaloyan Kovachev
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:42:08 -0500 (EST), Leo Pleiman wrote > Check this out... > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Configuration_Example_-_NFS_Over_GFS/index.html > > It provides nfs of the file system as a service to nodes outside the cluster. NFS from one node

Re: [Linux-cluster] Looking for guidance

2010-02-22 Thread Andrew Beekhof
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>I don;t think anyone on the project recommends Heartbeat v1 anymore. >>At least use the crm/pacemaker extensions (http://clusterlabs.org) if >>you're thinking about using Heartbeat in any way. > > Hi, > That's a coincidence, I am just part

[Linux-cluster] Virtual machine fence fail question

2010-02-22 Thread Bernard Chew
Hi, Given I have 2 Red Hat Clusters; 1 cluster consisting of physical hosts and another consisting of virtual guests which are hosted in the physical hosts. The physical host cluster uses DRAC fencing while the virtual guest cluster uses virtual machine fencing. If a physical host goes down, I sa

Re: [Linux-cluster] Looking for guidance

2010-02-22 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > how does it mitigate the > handling of stale filehandles in nfs? It doesn't mention anything about > moving the nfs dirs into the shared storage? > That's elementary, use udp than the default tcp for nfs share. ;) Regards Ra

Re: [Linux-cluster] Looking for guidance

2010-02-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Check this out... > >http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Configuration_Example_-_NFS_Over_GFS/index.html Great article, pretty much what I want to do with only two nodes though. >It provides nfs of the file system as a service to nodes outside the cluster. >NFS from

Re: [Linux-cluster] Repeated fencing

2010-02-22 Thread Carlos Maiolino
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 01:40:37PM -0800, Celso K. Webber wrote: > I endorse Doug's opinion. > > Although my opinion is empiric, I can afirm that a crossover (can be a > straight cable in case of GigEthernet) is "more stable" than many Ethernet > switches out there. Not to mention that sometimes

Re: [Linux-cluster] Repeated fencing

2010-02-22 Thread Celso K. Webber
I endorse Doug's opinion. Although my opinion is empiric, I can afirm that a crossover (can be a straight cable in case of GigEthernet) is "more stable" than many Ethernet switches out there. Not to mention that sometimes the customer has only 100 Mbps ports, while using crossover cable you'll

Re: [Linux-cluster] Looking for guidance

2010-02-22 Thread Leo Pleiman
Check this out... http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Configuration_Example_-_NFS_Over_GFS/index.html It provides nfs of the file system as a service to nodes outside the cluster. NFS from one node to the other is a real hack, you have nothing if the NFS server dies

Re: [Linux-cluster] Looking for guidance

2010-02-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I don;t think anyone on the project recommends Heartbeat v1 anymore. >At least use the crm/pacemaker extensions (http://clusterlabs.org) if >you're thinking about using Heartbeat in any way. Hi, That's a coincidence, I am just part way through your Fedora 11 doc using a couple of CentOS boxes. I

Re: [Linux-cluster] Looking for guidance

2010-02-22 Thread Andrew Beekhof
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Hey, > I am new to clusters, and have been reading up all the options but > given I haven't any experience ever setting one up I don't know which > option is best suited. > > I need to replicate a local volume between two servers, and expo

Re: [Linux-cluster] Repeated fencing

2010-02-22 Thread Doug Tucker
We did. It's problematic when you need to reboot a switch or it goes down. They can't talk and try to fence each other. Crossover cable is a direct connection, actually far more efficient for what you are trying to accomplish. On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 11:57 -0600, Paul M. Dyer wrote: > Crossover

Re: [Linux-cluster] Repeated fencing

2010-02-22 Thread Paul M. Dyer
Crossover cable?? With all the $$ spent, try putting a switch between the nodes. Paul - Original Message - From: "Doug Tucker" To: linux-cluster@redhat.com Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 10:15:49 AM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago Subject: [Linux-cluster] Repeated fencing We have a 2 4

[Linux-cluster] updating nodes and failback oprion

2010-02-22 Thread F M
Hello, I have a 3 Xen nodes cluster + GFS2 (SAN). All VM are in the GFS2 FS. OS: just updated to RH 5.4 During the Dom0 update of one of the nodes I used live migration to move VMs to another node. After the update, I rebooted the server. When it came back VMs tried to go back to his preferred

[Linux-cluster] Repeated fencing

2010-02-22 Thread Doug Tucker
We have a 2 4.x cluster that has developed an issue we are unable to resolve. Starting back in December, the nodes began fencing each other randomly, and as frequently as once a day. There is nothing at the console prior to it happening, and nothing in the logs. We have not been able to develop

Re: [Linux-cluster] Looking for guidance

2010-02-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>psst.. wanna try this? > >sources.redhat.com/cluster/doc/nfscookbook.pdf > >and oh, DRBD in primary/primary mode works if you don't have (budget >for) external shared storage. Hi, I did find that doc while looking and gave it a read. Not knowing anything about how the suite operates, how does it

Re: [Linux-cluster] Looking for guidance

2010-02-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>For a simple HA with active/passive i would do it with just a cron script to >check `drbdadm role ` and bring up the IP and services on the Primary if >the other node is Secondary or Unknown (if not yet). I would still use some >kind of fencing in DRBD's outdate-peer handler (at least set down the

Re: [Linux-cluster] Looking for guidance

2010-02-22 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > Hey, > > I need to replicate a local volume between two servers, and export the > data via nfs and rsyncd from either. They only need to be active/passive. > psst.. wanna try this? sources.redhat.com/cluster/doc/nfscookbook

Re: [Linux-cluster] Looking for guidance

2010-02-22 Thread Kaloyan Kovachev
Hi, On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:30:38 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote > Hey, > I am new to clusters, and have been reading up all the options but > given I haven't any experience ever setting one up I don't know which > option is best suited. > > I need to replicate a local volume between two servers, a