Hello, The system I work on currently uses Heartbeat to manage 6 or so virtual IP addresses on the network. We have several pairs of nodes that each serve as primary/secondary nodes for this IP addresses. These are fairly typical and easy heartbeat setups, so my knowledge of heartbeat doesn't go awfully deep.
I was recently asked if, for the next iteration of our system, we could have a heartbeat configuration that would allow one node to serve as the backup for multiple primary nodes. For example, if we have three servers that are each the primary for the separate virtual IP address, could we (instead of having a matching backup node for each primary) have just one backup node that would be capable of taking over any or all of those virtual IP addresses if the other nodes fail. I don't see this capability spelled out in any of the documentation (at least not explicitly) so I wondered if any of you have any experience which a configuration like this. Thank you very much for your help. Justin Bennett --- Justin Bennett Systems Engineer Asc. Lockheed Martin - MS2 Syracuse, NY Phone: 315.456.4084 Email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
