> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von 
> Michael Schwartzkopff
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 22:14
> An: General Linux-HA mailing list
> Betreff: Re: [Linux-HA] Duration to set up a cluster
> >   
> Hi,
> 
> this depends on many factors. If everything goes well it 
> takes me about
> one day to setup a system. This is without heavy testing and 
> without any
> problems in the resource agents. But I think I have some experience
> setting up clusters on real machines and virtual ones.
> 
> Normally I would think it takes some weeks to have a good 
> tested system.

Hi Michael,

you have to emphasize that you already climbed up the learning curve
for a while now. :-) It's something totally different to someone knowing
Linux but nothing of HAv2.

> If I calculate an offer for customers I tell them about five 
> days. If it
> is a standard setup one day.

That's a interesting information to hear that you still need a week for
a more complicated setup.

But anyway: All the replies show that there is not an easy entry to
HAv2. It took me many weeks to get a little bit used to HAv2. There are
too many issues to learn. Much time is needed to set up some helper scripts,
some templates for resource definitions, to get used to the logs, to understand
how all subprocesses fit together, to build up a test cluster, to test
several scenarios, to accept that the current GUI is (often) not usable,
to read the ha mailing list intensivly, to accept that there are still bugs and
to find out that different versions may differ in behaviour (which has to be 
tested).

So, IMHO the most time you have to spend on learning HA and the tools and
building up a usable test cluster (and if you don't have the money to replicate
the production system you have to live with an approximation, e.g. other stonith
devices, other network components)


Still learning every day somthing new about HAv2.
Andreas Mock

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