[Pacemaker] difference between anonymous and globally unique clone

2009-03-30 Thread Glory Smith
Hi All, can any one help me in understanding the difference between anonymous and globally unique clone. anonymous Clones are supposed to behave identically everywhere they are running but globally unique clone can behave differently . my understanding is, every resource agent has some sets of

Re: [Pacemaker] difference between anonymous and globally unique clone

2009-03-30 Thread Glory Smith
No. Neither type of resource allows you to place a specific instance on a particular node, this is by design. That means we cant control any clone resource on individual node. either all instances can be started or all can be stopped. The difference is that anonymous clones only allow

Re: [Pacemaker] question related to resource starting

2009-03-24 Thread Glory Smith
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Dominik Klein d...@in-telegence.net wrote: Glory Smith wrote: Hi All, when we create a resource , how pacemaker choose a node to start resource on it. To be more clear , suppose we have four node cluster , we configure any resource xx and we

Re: [Pacemaker] HELP!!!!! Please

2009-03-23 Thread Glory Smith
Add more communication paths. Network cards are cheap these days. need an advice , which stonith is recommended for production use. i have heard , sbd , ssh are not good. Thanks , Thanks, Dejan ___ Pacemaker mailing list

[Pacemaker] question related to resource starting

2009-03-23 Thread Glory Smith
Hi All, when we create a resource , how pacemaker choose a node to start resource on it. To be more clear , suppose we have four node cluster , we configure any resource xx and we see that it is started on say , node C . so my question is why node C is choosen to run the resource xx. is this

[Pacemaker] HELP!!!!! Please

2009-03-19 Thread Glory Smith
Hi All, i am new to H.A. i am using 4 nodes cluster . i have configured SBD stonith . yesterday due to NW partition i got 2 partitions. i found that SBD didn't do anything . i guess only the partition having quorum can stonith other partition , as here both partitions dont have quorum so SBD

Re: [Pacemaker] Dont want to start openais cluster service at startup

2009-03-06 Thread Glory Smith
Thanks for reply Andrew, i am using suse 11. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Andrew Beekhof beek...@gmail.com wrote: it depends on which distro you're using On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 06:17, Glory Smith xx2gl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am using openais + pacemaker cluster stack. i dont

[Pacemaker] Dont want to start openais cluster service at startup

2009-03-05 Thread Glory Smith
Hi All, I am using openais + pacemaker cluster stack. i dont want to start openais cluster service at startup. can any one tell me what is recommended way to remove the openais cluster service from startup. Thanks, ___ Pacemaker mailing list

[Pacemaker] anyone tried sbd??

2009-03-01 Thread Glory Smith
Hi, i am following http://www.linux-ha.org/SBD_Fencing and trying following command. /usr/sbin/sbd -d /dev/sbd -4 20 -1 10 create but getting error message /usr/sbin/sbd: invalid option -- '4' any one knows what's wrong here?? Regards, ___

Re: [Pacemaker] Few questions

2009-02-23 Thread Glory Smith
Thanks a lot NAKAHIRA, i started the sbd daemon and now everything is working as expected. hey one thing more, i wanted to test the watchdog timer . SBD document says , a node commits suicide if it fails to update watchdog timer. can i test it some how. can you help me in this. i wanted to know

Re: [Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-16 Thread Glory Smith
we kill the node with STONITH. very hard for a machine to write to shared media when its powered off. we can kill nodes when: - nodes become unresponsive - nodes are not part of the cluster that has quorum - resources fail to stop when instructed - resources fail in any way (optional)

Re: [Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-16 Thread Glory Smith
I get the feeling that by resource fencing, you just mean scsi reservations which are already possible in the current framework. Yes i want persistent scsi reservation .it's really great that it is possible in current framework , but i couldnot find it and when posted a query about this

Re: [Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-16 Thread Glory Smith
Hi Andrew, how do we configure pesisten reservation fencing in suse 11. Thanks, On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Glory Smith xx2gl...@gmail.com wrote: I get the feeling that by resource fencing, you just mean scsi reservations which are already possible in the current framework. Yes i

[Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-15 Thread Glory Smith
Hi All, I need an urgent help . i am planning to use suse 11 openais cluster. i need to know one very basic question . how does it handle data intigrity. i have seen some document on scsi2reservation but that does not persist during node reboot. i have seen some disussion that Persistent

Re: [Pacemaker] no-quorum-policy

2009-02-09 Thread Glory Smith
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Romi Verma romi3rd...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have one confusion . pacemaker (configuration explained ) document says that if the cluster does not have quorum then the cluster cannot start resources or fence other nodes. i understand that when