On 24/04/2013, at 1:57 AM, Angel L. Mateo <[email protected]> wrote:

> El 22/04/13 13:01, Lars Marowsky-Bree escribió:
>> On 2013-04-22T11:14:14, "Angel L. Mateo" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>     The problem I have is that I have firstly configured the cluster with
>>> CLVM, but with this I can't create snapshots of my volumes, which is
>>> required for backups.
>>> 
>>>     But is this CLVM really necessary? Or it is enough to configure LVM
>>> with fencing and stonith?
>> 
>> If you're happy with having each volume group being active/passive, yes,
>> a normal LVM resource with fencing etc is sufficient.
>> 
>> cLVM is only needed if you need to concurrently manage a volume group
>> cluster-wide. The choice can be made per VG.
>> 
>       Then, I want to configure cman + corosync + pacemaker (as described at 
> 1). With this in mind which fence mechanism should I use? fence_scsi (my 
> shared storage is in fibre channel scsi san)? Or the pcmk fence is 
> enough?

You need both. The "pcmk fence" just redirects the request from cman to 
pacemaker - which then needs a real device to do the job.

> Where can I found documentation for fence mechanisms?
> 
>       In other configuration scenarios (2) using clvm, a dlm and sfex (3) 
> resource is also created. Should I configure it too?
> 
>       Thanks for your help.
> 
> 1. http://clusterlabs.org/quickstart-ubuntu.html
> 2. 
> https://www.suse.com/documentation/sle_ha/book_sleha/?page=/documentation/sle_ha/book_sleha/data/book_sleha.html
> 3. http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/Sfex_%28resource_agent%29
> 
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