Re: [Linux-HA] 2 Nodes split brain, distant sites

2014-02-28 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2014-02-28T13:16:33, Digimer wrote: > Assuming a SAN in each location (otherwise you have a single point of > failure), then isn't it still possible to end up with a split-brain if/when > the WAN link fails? As I suggested a 3rd tie-breaker site (which, in the case of SBD, can be any old iSCS

Re: [Linux-HA] 2 Nodes split brain, distant sites

2014-02-28 Thread Digimer
On 28/02/14 05:55 AM, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: On 2014-02-27T11:05:21, Digimer wrote: So regardless of quorum, fencing is required. It is the only way to reliably avoid split-brains. Unfortunately, fencing doesn't work on stretch clusters. For a two node stretch cluster, sbd can also be

Re: [Linux-HA] 2 Nodes split brain, distant sites

2014-02-28 Thread Digimer
On 28/02/14 04:17 AM, TRIBOLET Thomas wrote: Hi, I have taken a look at the documentation about booth. The problem is that it need a third independent arbitrator on a third connection that I don't have, which will grant or remove ticket. My idea about fencing is to send an ssh command to rebo

Re: [Linux-HA] 2 Nodes split brain, distant sites

2014-02-28 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2014-02-27T11:05:21, Digimer wrote: > So regardless of quorum, fencing is required. It is the only way to > reliably avoid split-brains. Unfortunately, fencing doesn't work on stretch > clusters. For a two node stretch cluster, sbd can also be used reliably as a fencing mechanism. It essen

Re: [Linux-HA] 2 Nodes split brain, distant sites

2014-02-28 Thread TRIBOLET Thomas
-ha-boun...@lists.linux-ha.org] de la part de Digimer > [li...@alteeve.ca] Envoyé : jeudi 27 février 2014 17:05 À : General > Linux-HA mailing list Objet : Re: [Linux-HA] 2 Nodes split brain, > distant sites > > On 27/02/14 09:42 AM, TRIBOLET Thomas wrote: >> 2) My prob

Re: [Linux-HA] 2 Nodes split brain, distant sites

2014-02-27 Thread Digimer
05 À : General Linux-HA mailing list Objet : Re: [Linux-HA] 2 Nodes split brain, distant sites On 27/02/14 09:42 AM, TRIBOLET Thomas wrote: 2) My problem : When there is a network problem : Ex : a) first-node site lost internet connection ( and communication with second-node at same time du

Re: [Linux-HA] 2 Nodes split brain, distant sites

2014-02-27 Thread TRIBOLET Thomas
.@lists.linux-ha.org [linux-ha-boun...@lists.linux-ha.org] de la part de Digimer [li...@alteeve.ca] Envoyé : jeudi 27 février 2014 17:05 À : General Linux-HA mailing list Objet : Re: [Linux-HA] 2 Nodes split brain, distant sites On 27/02/14 09:42 AM, TRIBOLET Thomas wrote: > 2) My proble

Re: [Linux-HA] 2 Nodes split brain, distant sites

2014-02-27 Thread Digimer
On 27/02/14 09:42 AM, TRIBOLET Thomas wrote: 2) My problem : When there is a network problem : Ex : a) first-node site lost internet connection ( and communication with second-node at same time due to vpn on internet connection ) b) cluster stop openvpn on first node and launch it on seco

Re: [Linux-HA] 2 Nodes split brain, distant sites

2014-02-27 Thread Fabian Herschel
Hi, my first idea would be to fix binnetaddr. It should be the networkaddress not the machines network address. Regards Fabian On 02/27/2014 03:42 PM, TRIBOLET Thomas wrote: Hello, Before starting, my first language is French so I'll try to do my best to explain my problem in English. 1)

[Linux-HA] 2 Nodes split brain, distant sites

2014-02-27 Thread TRIBOLET Thomas
Hello, Before starting, my first language is French so I'll try to do my best to explain my problem in English. 1) The situation : I have 2 servers on 2 distant site. I need to run openvpn with the same configuration on the 2 servers. But it must run only on one server at a time. I want