Hello cluster experts, I'm new here and new to cluster world too... I need some help, in order to setup a cluster in our organization. Shortly, our schema is: 2 routers for HA and load balancing - ar (active router) - br (backup router) 3 http servers located internaly acting as real web servers (rs1, rs2, rs3) behind ar and br routers. rs1=192.168.113.3/24 rs2=192.168.113.4/24 rs3=192.168.113.5/24 2 shared data servers (shd1, shd2) shd1=192.168.113.6/24 shd1=192.168.113.7/24 1 server for cluster management (rhclm) rhclm=192.168.113.8/24 I've configured ar and br routers for high availability and load banacing and everything is ok. Active router (ar) are forwarding http requests to VIP (floating) external ip address to internaly ip addresses of rs1, rs2, rs3 webservers. Now, i don't know how to: - configure and group some hard disks on our shd1 and sdh2 servers to form a shared volume for our rs1, rs2, rs3 real servers (i suppose that the correct topic should be shared volume using GFS...) - make usable this volume and act as DOCUMENT ROOT on our rs1, rs2 and rs3 webservers. All our servers are running centos 5.2 and has all updates installed. On rhclm (192.168.113.8) i installed cana and created a cluster with 2 nodes: shd1 and shd2. Cana, generated the following cluster.conf on shd1 and shd2 servers: [root@shd1 ~]# cat /etc/cluster/cluster.conf <?xml version="1.0"?> <cluster alias="wwwdata" config_version="2" name="wwwdata"> <fence_daemon clean_start="0" post_fail_delay="0" post_join_delay="3"/> <clusternodes> <clusternode name="192.168.113.7" nodeid="1" votes="1"> <fence/> </clusternode> <clusternode name="192.168.113.6" nodeid="2" votes="1"> <fence/> </clusternode> </clusternodes> <cman expected_votes="1" two_node="1"/> <fencedevices/> <rm> <failoverdomains/> <resources/> </rm> <totem consensus="4800" join="60" token="10000" token_retransmits_before_loss_const="20"/> </cluster> Now, on shd1 i am using hda for centos OS and hdb (1,2) i want to make it available to be used on shared volume: [root@shd1 ~]# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 3 64 39082680 hdb 3 65 19541056 hdb1 3 66 19541592 hdb2 [root@shd1 ~]# on shd2 i have hda for centos and hdc (1,2) i want it available to be used on shared volume: [root@shd2 ~]# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 22 0 78150744 hdc 22 1 39075088 hdc1 22 2 39075624 hdc2 [root@shd2 ~]# Using cana, i couldn't find a way to create a volume, grouping hdb1 (from shd1) together with hdc1 (from sdh2) in one volume. I want to do this for 2 reasons: - i want that volume to be mounted as document root on rs1, rs2, rs3 real webservers - i want that volume to be easy to extend adding new hdd on the fly of other computers to this volume (new hdd slices of other new computers). Can anybody tell me how can i do it? I don't know that for this design if correct to have: - all 5 servers (rs1, rs2, rs3, shd1, shd2) to be configured as nodes in the same cluster or - rs1, rs2, rs3 to be part of one cluster and shd1 and shd2 to form another cluster I read section: A.2. Configuring Shared Storage in this document http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Cluster_Administration/ap-httpd-service-CA.html but is not what i want. Can anybody help me. A link pointing me to the correct direction or a howto will be appreciated. Regards, Alx -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster