On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Imri Zvik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am trying to compile a configuration for DRBD replication between two 
> geographical sites, in order to achieve MySQL HA.
> According to my requirments, I only need one node at each site.
> The solution should be able to cope with split brain scenarios.
>
> I was thinking about the following configuration:
>
> 1. Single node cluster at each site, with DRBD MS resource and a MySQL 
> resource set with colocation to start on the DRBD master.
> 2. no-quorum-policy=ignore
> 3. stonith set to suicide
> 4. Boothd with a third site to run an arbitrator. DRBD and MySQL will depend 
> on the ticket from Boothd using rsc_ticket ( loss-policy=demote).
>
> My questions are:
> 1. what are the cons of this configuration? Any caveats/pitfalls I am 
> missing? will it work?

I think stonith is going to be the catch.
Traditionally pacemaker hasn't wanted to, nor been very good at having
nodes fence themselves (because there is, by definition, no-one around
to confirm it worked).

> 2. I haven't seen any concrete examples/configuration references on how to 
> correctly configure pacemaker for single node cluster. Do I need corosync?

Yes.

> can it be disabled?

No.

> I've seen something about a "null comm module" but wasn't able to find any 
> detailed information on how to configure it.

Not needed, just don't start up any other nodes for it to talk to.
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