On 14/06/2013, at 3:57 AM, Guglielmo Abbruzzese <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > I'm working on a issue from a while but it seems to me I've got to a dead > end :( > > Till now, I've been able to setup and configure several cluster solutions on > RHEL6.2x64 using the RH's Corosync (1.4.1-4) and Pacemaker (1.1.6-3) rpms. > I've started to work on installing a SAN storage, I'd like to use a shared > file system because 8 servers need to store something on it at the same > time. > OCFS2 seems to be not available anymore for my distro. I don't believe OCFS2 was ever available on RHEL. > NFS is not suitable. > So I decided to try and use gfs2, even because of the excellent > "Pacemaker-1.1-Clusters_from_Scratch" install and configuration guide. > > Here are some troubles. > > 1. The user guide refers to Fedora13. It suggests to install gfs2-utils, > cman and gfs2-cluster. In particular, gfs2-cluster is not provided with > RHEL, and the version I've found (gfs2-cluster-3.1.1-2.fc14.x86_64.rpm) > requires cman >= 3.1.0-1 and openais >= 1.1.2-1; not even RHEL6.4 has got > such versions. What's the best practice in this case? Those packages do not appear in the base distro. You have to pay for the HA channel to get those. Or, follow http://clusterlabs.org/quickstart-redhat.html > > 2. Pacemaker is provided with RHEL and so I thought it was supported in some > way by the RHEL's team (at least about the compatibility with the other > packages); but it isn't actually, and the support has strongly suggested to > swap to Red Hat Cluster Suite. I've been working a lot on Pacemaker, this is > a choice I really wouldn't take... It is slowly becoming less unsupported with every 6.x release. That I need to speak cryptically about such developments is highly annoying. To put it differently, if you run pacemaker on top of cman in 6.4 and find a serious bug, it should be possible push out an update. > > 3. In the worst case, any suggestion about mounting and managing a shared > SAN storage file system with a different solution without trashing all my > job till now for switching to RHCS? > > I'd appreciate a lot if you shared your experience > Thank you for your time > Guglielmo > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
