On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Bennett, Justin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
The short answer is "yes". Run Pacemaker on top of Heartbeat and you can pretty much have any kind of failover strategy you can dream up. > 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 > _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
