2009/8/12 Hakan VELIOGLU <[email protected]> > Hi list, > > I am trying a two node cluster with RH 5.3 on Sun X4150 hardware. I use a > private network for heartbeat channel and fence_ipmilan for fencing the two > node. When I unplug the heartbeat channel cable, both cluster nodes shut > themselves down with fence_ipmilan. > > I think the single point of failure for this design is private heartbeat > channel. I made a search on the web and there seems no backup heartbeat > channel (like LVS) on cluster suite. > > How can I overcome this single point of failure problem? > > One solution is I think, bonding heartbeat interfaces, however I use all > available interfaces and there is no extra interface for private heartbeat > channel. For this reason this solution doesn't suit me. > Why do you need a private heartbeat channel? Configure two network interfaces in a bonding one, connect the two of them to two different switches (with a redundant interconnection), make sure switches let multicast traffic through. Configure bonding interface IP to fit your needs.
Greetings, Juanra > > Anybody has an idea to overcome heartbeat channel failure problem. > > > Hakan Velioğlu > > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster >
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