Re: CARP Cold Spare

2021-09-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 9/24/21 6:13 PM, Don Tek wrote: Would there be any ‘problem’ with configuring a 2-machine CARP setup and then just keeping one machine powered-off until needed? I realize this defeats live failover, but this is not a requirement for my customer. I just want them to be able to, in the eve

Re: CARP Cold Spare

2021-09-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2021-09-25, leonard wrote: > What is the power draw? I use a 1500 VA apc backups with 6 outlets on ups and > 5 on surge protection. As long as your total draw is less than 1200 VA, for < > $200 canadian you have a cheap simple solution. Just put on on the ups side > and the other on the surg

Re: CARP Cold Spare

2021-09-25 Thread leonard
@on the road Original message From: Don Tek Date: 2021-09-25 11:40 (GMT-05:00) To: jslee Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: CARP Cold Spare I'm not sure why the hardware matters, but the two machines are a couple HP 1U Gen 8 Xeon servers.  Suffice to say, they are ident

Re: CARP Cold Spare

2021-09-25 Thread Don Tek
an 1200 VA, for < > $200 canadian you have a cheap simple solution. Just put on on the ups side > and the other on the surge suppressor side. Or buy 2. > > > > leonard@on the road > > > Original message > From: Don Tek > Date: 2021-

Re: CARP Cold Spare

2021-09-25 Thread Don Tek
I'm not sure why the hardware matters, but the two machines are a couple HP 1U Gen 8 Xeon servers. Suffice to say, they are identical and have supported hardware configurations for OpenBSD. Of course I _could_ run one off direct power, but it would be a terrible idea. The location is notoriou

Re: CARP Cold Spare

2021-09-25 Thread jslee
Hi, You haven’t said anything about your hardware platform, but could you run one of them on non-UPS power? Then you’d still have one online when (*not* if) the UPS fails, and also they’ll both normally be online for maintenance, syspatch, config changes etc I do recall installing a pair of id

Re: CARP Cold Spare

2021-09-24 Thread Brian Brombacher
> On Sep 24, 2021, at 6:16 PM, Don Tek wrote: > > Would there be any ‘problem’ with configuring a 2-machine CARP setup and > then just keeping one machine powered-off until needed? > > I realize this defeats live failover, but this is not a requirement for my > customer. > > I just want t

CARP Cold Spare

2021-09-24 Thread Don Tek
Would there be any ‘problem’ with configuring a 2-machine CARP setup and then just keeping one machine powered-off until needed? I realize this defeats live failover, but this is not a requirement for my customer. I just want them to be able to, in the event of a primary machine failure, power