The RHCS for RHEL4 does not requires a SAN like its antecessor RHCS for RHEL3.
All quorum control and cluster management is done throught network, so you will be fine without a SAN when using RHCS for RHEL4.
The only problem you will encounter is that without a SAN you will probably have to sincronize data between the servers if your application stores data on internar discs on the servers....
Also to use an active-active (same service active on both servers) configuration + loadbalancing you will need more than 2 servers; at least 4 servers, 2 for loadbalancing (1 active/1 backup) and 2 for the critical service active concurently on both servers (no high availability, no failover).
But if the active-active is for the servers (hardware), which means not the same service on high availability then; 2 servers doing loadbalancing (1 active/1 backup), 2 servers providing 2 critical services, one actice on node A and the other one active on node B (failover activated)
Well thats my understanding about Red Hat's Cluster Suite... Please correct me if I Am wrong...
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Filipe Miranda
On 4/20/06, Scott Kellogg
<skellogg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if I could get some assistance in setting up a two
node cluster.
We have 2 Dell PowerEdge 850 machines running RHEL4. Our license for
Cluster Suite is still in purchasing. The main thing in the Cluster
Suite documentation which confuses me is the use of a SAN. RHEL4
docs claim that the need for a SAN has been eliminated, but I'm
having trouble find more information. Most of the docs assume you
are using a SAN. My customer could not afford the SAN, just the servers.
I would like to set up a high-availablity environment. I understand
that due to the hardware configuration (no SAN, no RAID) that there
are still points of failure. I'm hoping to set up a simple active-
passive configuration. We will be running LAMP applications. If the
primary server cannot deliver services, I'd like to automatically cut
over to the backup.
Ideally, I'd like to set up active-active and load balancing, since
the servers have DRAC4 fence devices for use with STONITH. However,
since there is no SAN, I'm not sure how data will be mirrored across
the two machines.
Any help is appreciated!
Thank you,
Scott Kellogg
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