Hi Jakob, When you say that Heartbeat is more or less "out of service", are you saying that this project is not supported or being worked on anymore? Did you read this somewhere?
Thanks for the reply! Charles On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Jakob Curdes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
