Re: [Veritas-ha] Cluster Interconnect cables: Direct connect or VLANs?

2009-09-16 Thread robertinoau
I'm concerned that if our network has a serious problem and goes down that each Node in the Cluster might be isolated and both Nodes import the disk groups, mount volumes, etc and thus data corruption. To prevent this scenario you need to implement IO fencing. This issues a race condition for

Re: [Veritas-ha] Cluster Interconnect cables: Direct connect or VLANs?

2009-09-16 Thread Eric Hennessey
The configuration you’re considering – running your cluster interconnects over two separate VLANs – is actually our preferred and recommended method, even when deploying a simple 2-node cluster. While using direct connections between cluster nodes is simple and convenient, it becomes

Re: [Veritas-ha] Cluster Interconnect cables: Direct connect orVLANs?

2009-09-16 Thread Jim Senicka
My only addition to the comments by the esteemed gentleman from Virginia is to make sure you have a solid practice in place to manage cluster ID when you go VLAN, as there may be cases when your network people “cross the streams” From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu