I am looking to create a 2-node Active/Passive firewall cluster. I am an
experienced Linux user, but new to HA clusters. I have scanned "Clusters
>From Scratch" and "Pacemaker Explained". I found these docs helpful, but a
bit overwhelming, being new to HA clusters.
My goals:
* create 2-node Active/Passive firewall cluster
* Each FW node has an external, and internal interface
* Cluster software presents external, internal VIPs
* VIPs must be co-located on same node
* One node is preferred for VIP locations
* If any interface fails on node currently hosting VIPs, VIPs move to other
node
For simplicity sake, I'll start by creating VIPs, and add firewall plumbing
to the VIPs in the future.
My config:
CentOS-6.3 based distro +
corosync-1.4.1-1
pacemaker-1.1.8-1
pcs-0.9.26-1
resource-agents-3.9.2-12
and all required dependencies
My questions:
This sounds like a common use case, but I could not find an example/HOWTO.
Did I miss it?
Do I have the correct HA cluster packages, versions to start work?
Do I also need the cman?, ccs packages?
How many interfaces should each cluster node have?
2 interfaces: internal, external
or
3 interfaces: internal, external, monitor
Do I need to configure corosync.conf/totem/interface/bindnetaddr, and if
so, bind to what net?
$1M question:
How to configure cluster to monitor all internal, external cluster
interfaces, and perform
failover? Here's my estimate:
* create external VIP as IpAddr2 and bind to external interfaces
* create internal VIP as IpAddr2 and bind to internal interfaces
* co-locate both VIPs together
* specify a location constraint for preferred node
Any help would be appreciated,
thanks
Jeff
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