Hi Daniel, we are going to provide the HowTo and the required software to build up a GFS shared root cluster within the next week. You will find everything you need at http://www.open-sharedroot.org The main part of the process is to build an initrd that mounts the shared root. This is quite a complex thing to do. Therefore, we developed some scripts to do the job. Keep looking at the website ... Yes, you can use RHEL4 Update2 with open-sharedroot. Regards, Mark On Tuesday 24 January 2006 15:06, Daniel EPEE LEA wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed node 1 and node 2 with seperate root partitions, i mean > each node has it's own root partition ( /boot /usr /home /var /tmp). Nodes > are RAID 1+ 0. > > How do I setup my shared SAN storage to implement a shared GFS root for my > cluster nodes ? > > My goal is to achieve ACTIVE/ACTIVE GFS cluster. Does open-sharedroot > support RHEL ES v4 Update 2 ( kernel 2.6.9-22.ELsmp #1 SMP ). If not how do > I setup the sym links for both nodes to share / partitions ? > > Thanks for your help, > > Much regards, > > Daniel > > On 1/4/06, Mark Hlawatschek <hlawatschek@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Sara, > > > > > we are planning to service 200000 customers for > > > internet services such as webhosting,email,DNS.We have > > > designed about 8 servers for each service to run a > > > share of the load.I want to use Clustersuit as well as > > > GFS as we are making use of SAN. > > > > Very good. We've built some solutions for internet services based on a > > GFS storage cluster with great success. We also created a diskless shared > > root cluster environment (cluster boots from SAN and shares the same root > > partition) for enhanced management and scalability. We determined that > > using > > a shared root cluster extremely reduces the effort for system > > administration. > > Besides, the scalability of the cluster and replacement of cluster nodes > > can > > be done within minimum timeframe and minimum installation work. As you > > want > > to create a cluster with 8 nodes and more, you should also think about > > that. > > We are in progress of releasing the shared root software at source forge > > site. > > The project's name will be open-sharedroot. > > > > > As I have studied mannuals of clustersuit , it seems > > > that there is only one service up in each > > > clustersystems , my question is we this high number of > > > users How can I rely just on one servers , I know that > > > another server in failoverdomain comesup incase of > > > first server failure , but what about load balancing? > > > how can I have all of me servers running in my > > > clustersystems ? > > > I have studied about pirnaha for IP load balancing but > > > it seems that I can not use GFS with Pirnaha? > > > I appreciate If any one could help me reagrding this > > > issue? > > > > As this topic has been already discussed, he're just a short sum-up: > > - You need an IP load-balancer in front of your cluster. You can use a > > hardware solution or a software solution like Piranha or other packages > > using > > LVS to implement this. To achieve highest availability you shoud create > > at least an active/passive HA cluster. The nicest solution would be an > > active/active loadbalancing. > > - To host the services you need to create the GFS storage cluster (also > > think > > about using shared root). Depending on the type of service, the > > applications > > are running in parallel on each cluster node (e.g. apache, tomcat, php), > > or > > are integrated into a failover configuration (e.g. mySQL). > > > > Best Regards, > > Mark > > -- > > Gruss / Regards, > > > > Dipl.-Ing. Mark Hlawatschek > > Phone: +49-89 121 409-55 > > http://www.atix.de/ > > > > ** > > ATIX - Ges. fuer Informationstechnologie und Consulting mbH > > Einsteinstr. 10 - 85716 Unterschleissheim - Germany > > > > -- > > > > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Gruss / Regards, Dipl.-Ing. Mark Hlawatschek Phone: +49-89 121 409-55 http://www.atix.de/ ** ATIX - Ges. fuer Informationstechnologie und Consulting mbH Einsteinstr. 10 - 85716 Unterschleissheim - Germany -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
