On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Joseph L. Casale <jcasale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey, > I am new to clusters, and have been reading up all the options but > given I haven't any experience ever setting one up I don't know which > option is best suited. > > I need to replicate a local volume between two servers, and export the > data via nfs and rsyncd from either. They only need to be active/passive. > > I originally thought drbd and heartbeat v1 would be the simplest but looking > at what's needed for nfs to work looks slightly hackish and I really don't > know how well this will perform (It could very well be the best option). I don;t think anyone on the project recommends Heartbeat v1 anymore. At least use the crm/pacemaker extensions (http://clusterlabs.org) if you're thinking about using Heartbeat in any way. > > After looking at alternatives, I figured the cluster suite from rhel might > be a good supported option but given the two node, active/passive setup > that looks like it is way over complicated. > > The need for fencing can be slightly mitigated by requiring manual intervention > to rejoin a node that has left, it's not active/active HA I am looking for, > but redundant data and weak ha through failover. The nodes are in two buildings > connected by gig fiber. > > Any experienced ops have any insight into an approach best suited that > I could settle on and start researching? > > Thx, > jlc > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
