Michael Dodd wrote: > We're setting up an LVS cluster with two directors for failover. I'm > having a hard time getting the behaviour I want from the directors. > When the master fails and the secondary picks up, I don't want the > master to take back resources when it comes back up. We're using > co-equal boxes for directors so there's no reason for us to go through > the service interruption of moving resources back to the failed primary. > > Right now, if we test it be stopping heartbeat ( /etc/init.d/heartbeat > stop ) on one of the directors, everything seems to work exactly like we > want it to. > > If we simulate an outage by pulling the ethernet cable on the > broadcasting nic, Failover happens correctly, but when we plug the NIC > back in, that machine seems to take resources back over again.
That would probably be because you've created a split-brain situation, and heartbeat is recovering from it by restarting the services on both machines. http://linux-ha.org/SplitBrain Generally, you want to avoid a split-brain condition. If you have shared storage you REALLY want to avoid it - since it will trash your data. http://linux-ha.org/BadThingsWillHappen -- Alan Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Openness is the foundation and preservative of friendship... Let me claim from you at all times your undisguised opinions." - William Wilberforce _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
