On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Dejan Muhamedagic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:14:39PM -0500, Paras pradhan wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Paras pradhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Daniel Asplund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >wrote:
> > >
> > >> >
> > >> > Hey all:
> > >> >
> > >> > It seems like my question is related to ha, drbd and xen . Hence
> posting
> > >> to all of them at once.
> > >> > I have two nodes setup with xen 3.0.3, drbd82, heartbeat 2 under
> centos
> > >> 5.2. As I was testing this cluster for high availibility, I noticed
> some
> > >> issues
> > >> >
> > >> > 1)  domA is running under node1. when I manually shutdown node 1,
> > >> sometimes it is migrated automatically to node2 and sometimes it is
> > >> restarted in node2. Why is this happening?
> > >> > 2) domA is running under node1. when I pull off the network cable,
> domA
> > >> is restarted in node 2 with no problem. But when the node1 comes back,
> domA
> > >> is not migrated to node1 and if i do 'xm list' under node1, I see
> > >> "migrating-domain". This is complicating everything.
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> 1) Most likely live migration fails for some reason and therefore the
> > >> domA is restarted in node2. Could be a timer issue or a problem with
> > >> release of resources. You should be able to see something from the
> > >> logs during shutdown on node1.
> > >>
> > >> 2) heartbeat on node1 will sense an error and try to migrate domA to
> > >> node2 when node1 is up again. But the node2 has already started domA
> > >> and you basically have domA running on both nodes. To avoid split
> > >> situations like this you should really use a STONITH device that can
> > >> reboot the other node, a hardware device connected via serial cable is
> > >> most secure, but a cheaper alternative is to use soft stonith device
> > >> that can reboot the other node via SSH or telnet. You probably need to
> > >> tweak heartbeat as well to allow it to do further checks, for example
> > >> test connectivity to your gateway.
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes it seems I need Stonith. At least for now I want to use stonith ssh
> for
> > > testing purposes. One thing that i am confused, how do i configure
> stonith
> > > and what is the typical practise. In above scenario, node1 should be
> > > rebooted or node2.
> > >
> > > What i did is under node1, I added "stonith_host * ssh node2" to ha.cfand
> > > under node2: "stonith_host * ssh node1".  But this is not working.
> > >
> > > Is that the way to configure stonith. I have checked linux-ha.org +
> > > google, but this confusion persists.
> > >
> > >
> > > What I want is, if there is a network outage in node1, it should be
> > > automatically rebooted or shutdown migrating all domUs to node2.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Do you have two NICs in both nodes or are you running DRBD, HA and
> > >> data traffic over same NIC?
> > >
> > >
> > > Daniel, Yes I have 2 NICs in both nodes.
> > >
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Regards, Daniel
> > >> http://www.asplund.nu/xencluster.html
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Paras.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > One more thing as I am testing my ha cluster.
> >
> >
> > I think I have a satisfactory HA cluster setup which I am planning to put
> in
> > production. But i think I am too far away from it.
> >
> > I need some advices... how do I test this cluster?
> >
> > Few scenarios I have done to test:
> >
> > 1) stop heart beat daemons --> Working fine
> >
> > 2) Reboot and Shutdown nodes --> Working fine
> >
> > 3) Pull of the network cable or did 'service network stop' --> Working..
> but
> > split brain need to be manually taken care of. Which solution is ideal?
> > stonith meatware, stonith suicide or stonith ssh.
>
> A real stonith device. Suicide may be of use in some setups, but
> I wouldn't recommend it in general. No ssh in production.


If I pull off the network cable in a node. Is it possible for that node to
be poweroff using suicide or ssh?  It seems yes, but is not working. Any
tips on this?



>
>
> > 4) Any other tips on how to test the cluster?
>
> Disk full.
>
> We need a list of things which may fail in interesting ways.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dejan
>
> >
> > Thanks
> > Paras.
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Thanks
Paras.
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