Hi,

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 08:13:56PM +0500, Muhammad Sharfuddin wrote:
> its a 3 node cluster
> node1 and node2 are at same Data Center and has connected to same remote
> storage(SAN)while node3 is at another site, and thus not connected to
> that remote storage.
> 
> node1 will run the application and thus require app file system
> node2 will be failover node for application and application file system
> resource
> 
> node2 will run the database and thus required database file system too
> node3 will be failover node for database and database file system
> resource.
> 
> database file system will be on drbd disk drbd disk resource will be
> master/slave.. mater will be node2, and slave will be node3.
> 
> My problem:
> what type of fencing I can use in this case, I have used sbd disk for
> fencing in a multi-node cluster that are in the same Datacenter and thus
> connected to same sbd disk(on SAN), but in  this case I have no idea
> because the third node is at another location/site.
> 
> If sbd is not a solution then please recommend what type fencing I can
> choose, and also the howto is also required, as I have no knowledge of
> any other type of fencing.

You can try with a lights-out device or a PDU/UPS. But take into
account that on split-brain, the off-site node may not be
reachable. Often meatware is the only possibility in this case.
Take a look here for fencing options
http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/crm_fencing.html

Thanks,

Dejan

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