Wow, Thanks for sharing the stuff to me. I really appreciate and kind of excited to get a reply just in a day. Yeah, i wish i can join the IRC to get quick answers, i must first check if my office network has it open. Thanks Again. I will go through the stuff u sent me and will come back with more appropriate questions to what i like to setup at my place.
Param On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Digimer <li...@alteeve.ca> wrote: > On 08/08/2012 09:01 AM, PARAM KRISH wrote: > >> Guys, I just joined this dl today. Kind of excited to know of the people >> here... >> >> I have worked in Sun / Veritas Cluster before, but liking to explore >> RHEL Cluster and planning to use it for one of our production setup. >> >> I would like to know few things to start with.. >> >> 1. We have Cisco UCS blades in which i plan to put ESX and install RHEL >> cluster. Does it work/supported ? >> 2. Which version of RHEL cluster you guys recommend for a production >> setup ? >> 3. Does the virtual environment completely supported in RHEL or any >> limitations, whatsoever that i must be aware before considering ? >> >> Any details in this would be highly regarded. >> >> thanks >> Param >> > > Welcome! > > The first question is "What kind of cluster are you trying to build?". > That will influence a lot of the advice you get. > > The backing hardware is generally irrelevant given two conditions; Does > the hardware support RHEL? Do you have a mechanism for fencing (ie: IPMI or > similar)? Of course, if you create VMs then this is further abstracted. You > can use 'fence_vmware' in that case. > > RHEL6 offers Cluster Stable 3, which is the most recent version > available on RHEL. It is the version you should use. > > You won't be able to run VMs on top of VMs, so you can't build a cluster > to support highly-available virtual machines if the nodes themselves are > VMs. Other services are fine though. > > This tutorial covers a lot of stuff that may not apply to you, but the > opening "Concepts" part you may find useful as it covers the various parts > in RHEL cluster software; > > https://alteeve.com/w/2-Node_**Red_Hat_KVM_Cluster_Tutorial<https://alteeve.com/w/2-Node_Red_Hat_KVM_Cluster_Tutorial> > > Lastly, if you are on IRC, we've got a semi-active channel on freenode > called "#linux-cluster". Members span most all timezones, so if you visit, > hang around if you don't get an answer quickly. Folks generally read the > scroll-back when they return. > > Cheers! > > -- > Digimer > Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com >
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