> On 09/15/2011 01:33 PM, Charles Richard wrote:
> Also confused as a lot of what i read on the internet mentions using
> Pacemaker with Heartbeat but yet the documentation from Oracle doesn't
> mention using Pacemaker at all as another article I'm using as well has no
> mention of Pacemaker.
Yes, it is confusing. In short: Heartbeat is more or less "out of 
service". For the CentOS/RedHat distributions, you can follow the 
instructions at clusterlabs website :

http://www.clusterlabs.org/wiki/Install

scroll down to "CentOS" etc. Instead of pacemaker + heartbeat this will 
end in a system with pacemaker and corosync, which is one of the 
currently supported setups.

I have several "generic" recommendations:
- Linux HA is not for the faint-hearted, you WILL experience unwanted 
things during your tests
- you do your tests with a bunch of test servers, do you? (we use 
virtual servers for testing)
- ignore old documentation referring to heartbeat. I invested some bucks 
into a current book on HA an think it was a good investment
(make sure it includes OpenAIS and corosync)
- use two different physical network connections for the HA "heartbeat", 
especially if you are DRBDing something. You must not risk a split-brain 
scenario in this case.
- test, test, test. pull the plugs, overload one machine, misconfigure 
your application ...

HTH,
Jakob Curdes

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