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Redhat Cluster

Ref: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Cluster_Administration/s1-add-service-CA.html

Getting tired of heartbeat... it's not really meant for managing HA services. I mean if heartbeat is dead but the service is up, should a service be restarted? Maybe the newer version of heartbeat takes care of that with crm. I'm just too lazy to go into that and instead I wanna give Redhat cluster a try.

# install clustering packages
yum groupinstall Clustering


# on host machine, create a shared disk. yes I'm using virtualbox here
VBoxManage createhd --filename /my/vm/c5-shared-disk.vdi --size 4096 --type shareable --variant Fixed
VBoxManage  modifyhd /my/vm/c5-shared-disk.vdi --type shareable


# on each node, configure a cluster with cluster-gui
system-config-cluster
1. add nodes
2. add manual fencing device - not recommended but there isn't a real fencing device I can use
3. add a failover domain with all nodes in the cluster
4. create floating IP resource
5. create filesystem resource
6. create mysql resource
7. create a service with all of the above shared resources. configure the service to "relocate" on recovery


# start cman and rgmanager
service cman start
service rgmanager start


# Testing failover
Shutdown mysql and watch it fail over.
mysqladmin -h<floating IP> shutdown


# Problemzzzz
While shutting mysql works, unplugging the nic doesn't cause a failover! The standby node keeps waiting for the dead node to fence. Forcing a fence_ack with fence_ack_manual didn't help.


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