On 22/05/2013, at 2:23 PM, Digimer <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 05/21/2013 11:59 PM, Deepak Yadav wrote:
>> Dear Team
>> 
>> 
>> I want  to configure the DRBD and Heartbeat on RHEL-6 OS but I am not able
>> to find out exact package of heartbeat for the installation.
>> Please help me out to resolve this issue !
> 
> Heartbeat is deprecated. It's not been developed in some time (though 
> Linbit supports existing installs).
> 
> You have two options here;
> 
> 1. Red Hat Cluster Suite (corosync + cman + rgmanager)
> 
> 2. Pacemaker (corosync + pacemaker)

For RHEL6, "2." should be "corosync + cman + pacemaker"

> 
> There are pros and cons to both, and you need to choose which is best 
> for you.
> 
> 1. Is the only* officially supported (by Red Hat) HA stack. This means 
> that, through the life of RHEL (and thus CentOS), upgrades to the OS 
> will never break your cluster.
> 
> 2. Pacemaker is the future of HA clustering. It is expected that, in 
> RHEL 7, Pacemaker will replace RHCS. So there is a strong argument to 
> start with pacemaker now.
> 
> The main problem that might push you away from Pacemaker (and what keeps 
> me personally on RHCS) is that Pacemaker is in "Tech Preview" mode in 
> RHEL. What this means is two fold;
> 
> a) The pacemaker package does not get updated except with y-stream 
> releases (6.0 -> 6.1 -> 6.2 -> etc). Even if bugs are found between 
> releases, no updated package will be shipped.

Since 6.4 there is a reasonable chance that fixes to serious bugs affecting 
Pacemaker + CMAN will qualify for a z-stream.

> 
> b) Each update to the 'pacemaker' package may or may not be compatible 
> with previous releases. For example, the update from 6.3 to 6.4 caused 
> compatibility problems.

This was only true for those not using Pacemaker with CMAN.

> 
> Many people run production pacemaker clusters, but you need to take your 
> time to learn how it works. You will also want to make sure that you 
> test updates before applying them to production machines.
> 
> *Personally*, I stick to rhcs. That said, the more people who use 
> pacemaker, the better it will get.
> 
> It's really up to you.
> 
> Hope this helps shed light.
> 
> digimer
> 
> * There are rumours that certain specific configurations of pacemaker 
> can be supported by Red Hat.
> 
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