I confess my experience with RHCS is pretty much limited to running GFS. You make a good point. Aside from shared coherent storage, what other interesting problems does RHCS solve? -----Original Message----- From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Soren Hansen Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 3:17 AM To: linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Highly available services On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 12:09:29AM -0500, Jeff Sturm wrote: > At a quick glance, I'd say fencing doesn't meet your needs, and RH > Cluster Suite may be overkill. You've worked out the details of > failover, you just need to automate it. Well, it's not called RedHat Fencing Suite, is it? :) > Have you tried heartbeat? It is well suited for simple failover of > resources such as IP addresses. Heartbeat has indeed been doing this for me up until now. :) I was just under the impression that rhcs was supposed to be a superset of heartbeat. I've managed to work around it in sneaky, sneaky, ways, but I'd really like to hear how this is *supposed* to be accomplished if at all. -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Server Team http://www.ubuntu.com/ -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster