Art, 

The Linbit Tech Guides are nice for this purpose as they give step-by-step 
instructions for configuring a simple example cluster. Since you mentioned 
using DRBD in your setup, I would recommend the DRBD Users Guide, which also 
has information specific to Pacemaker: 
http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/ 


Some notes about DRBD: 
- you will want to set the syncer rate to 1/3 of the bandwidth available over 
your DRBD replication link: 
http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/s-configure-sync-rate.html#eq-sync-rate-example1
 


- you will want to enable resource-level fencing for DRBD. In corosync-based 
clusters, this can be done with crm-fence-peer.sh: 
http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/s-pacemaker-fencing.html#s-pacemaker-fencing-cib
 


Also, I would recommend configuring more than one communication ring for 
Corosync, so that your cluster can still communicate even if one network is 
disrupted. When configuring redundant rings, you must specify the rrp_mode 
parameter in corosync.conf, which determines how Corosync uses the rings 
("active" to use all of the rings at once, "passive" to use one ring but 
failover to another if it is found to be faulty). 

Good luck! 


Andrew 
----- Original Message -----

From: "Art Zemon" <a...@hens-teeth.net> 
To: "The Pacemaker cluster resource manager" <pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org> 
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 9:07:48 AM 
Subject: Re: [Pacemaker] Getting Started on Ubuntu 12.04 

Thank you, Andrew. That is great info, particularly the Ubuntu 12.04-specifics 
about dependencies and libraries. 

I also found a very very dumbed down getting-started guide on the Minecraft 
wiki, of all places. 
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Tutorials/High-Availability_Cluster My 
biggest problem is not getting the code and compiling it. My problem is that I 
have never seen or managed a cluster with this software on it. I think this 
will get me started on the path so that I can have a working 
corosync+pacemaker+drbd to play with. 

-- Art Z. 


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