Re: [Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-16 Thread Glory Smith
Hi Andrew, i dont think SBD can be used for persistent reservation. this sbd disk is just used as heartbeat disk. nodes use this disk to communicate fencing request. i was trying to conifgure this sometime back by taking help from dejan. if a node looses access to SBD disk it reset itself. we can

Re: [Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-16 Thread Andrew Beekhof
I believe its called SBD, but I'm no expert on it On Feb 16, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Glory Smith wrote: Hi Andrew, how do we configure pesisten reservation fencing in suse 11. Thanks, On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Glory Smith wrote: I get the feeling that by "resource fencing", you just

Re: [Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-16 Thread Glory Smith
Hi Andrew, how do we configure pesisten reservation fencing in suse 11. Thanks, On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Glory Smith wrote: > > >> I get the feeling that by "resource fencing", you just mean scsi >> reservations which are already possible in the current framework. >> > > Yes i want p

Re: [Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-16 Thread Andrew Beekhof
On Feb 16, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Andreas Kurz wrote: You can have multiple stonith devices. If one fails, we just try the next. That sounds interesting ... is there somewhere an example how to configure this? Especially how to configure the order of presedence? I forget the details, but De

Re: [Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-16 Thread Andreas Kurz
Andrew Beekhof wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Glory Smith wrote: > >> >> >> having an unreliable stonith mechanism is worse than not having one at >> all. >> >> what if your resource fencing has a bug? its the same problem. >> >> reliable fencing is a fundamental requirement of the clus

Re: [Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-16 Thread Glory Smith
> > I get the feeling that by "resource fencing", you just mean scsi > reservations which are already possible in the current framework. > Yes i want persistent scsi reservation .it's really great that it is possible in current framework , but i couldnot find it and when posted a query about this

Re: [Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-16 Thread Andrew Beekhof
On Feb 16, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Glory Smith wrote: having an unreliable stonith mechanism is worse than not having one at all. what if your resource fencing has a bug? its the same problem. reliable fencing is a fundamental requirement of the cluster. i understand . but If i can do both (

Re: [Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-16 Thread Glory Smith
having an unreliable stonith mechanism is worse than not having one at all. > > what if your resource fencing has a bug? its the same problem. > > reliable fencing is a fundamental requirement of the cluster. i understand . but If i can do both (node as well as resource fencing) then there is ve

Re: [Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-16 Thread Andrew Beekhof
On Feb 16, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Glory Smith wrote: we kill the node with STONITH. very hard for a machine to write to shared media when its powered off. we can kill nodes when: - nodes become unresponsive - nodes are not part of the cluster that has quorum - resources fail to stop when inst

Re: [Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-16 Thread Dominik Klein
Glory Smith wrote: >> >> >> >> we kill the node with STONITH. >> very hard for a machine to write to shared media when its powered off. >> >> >> we can kill nodes when: >> - nodes become unresponsive - nodes are not part of the cluster that has >> quorum >> - resources fail to stop when instructed

Re: [Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-16 Thread Glory Smith
> > > > > we kill the node with STONITH. > very hard for a machine to write to shared media when its powered off. > > > we can kill nodes when: > - nodes become unresponsive - nodes are not part of the cluster that has > quorum > - resources fail to stop when instructed > - resources fail in any wa

Re: [Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-16 Thread Andrew Beekhof
On Feb 16, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Glory Smith wrote: Many Thanks Andrew , The same way heartbeat did (if you're familiar with that). Check out the section on STONITH in the configuration explained document (http://clusterlabs.org/wiki/Documentation) Unfortunetly this document's stonith chapter

Re: [Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-16 Thread Glory Smith
Many Thanks Andrew , The same way heartbeat did (if you're familiar with that). >> Check out the section on STONITH in the configuration explained document ( >> http://clusterlabs.org/wiki/Documentation) > > Unfortunetly this document's stonith chapter is blank. Anways i have gone through some ot

Re: [Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-16 Thread Andrew Beekhof
On Feb 16, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Glory Smith wrote: Hi All, I need an urgent help . i am planning to use suse 11 openais cluster. i need to know one very basic question . how does it handle data intigrity. The same way heartbeat did (if you're familiar with that). Check out the section on ST

[Pacemaker] very urgent

2009-02-15 Thread Glory Smith
Hi All, I need an urgent help . i am planning to use suse 11 openais cluster. i need to know one very basic question . how does it handle data intigrity. i have seen some document on scsi2reservation but that does not persist during node reboot. i have seen some disussion that Persistent reserva