[Pacemaker] Dropping HeartBeat Stack?

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Angie T. Muhammad
<angie.tawfik at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello list
>
> I have no technical questions at the moment, just a couple of
> distribution-specific and backward compatibility questions..
>
> 1- I just wonder will Pacemaker at any time in the near future (the next two
> years) drop HeartBeat as a cluster stack?

The overhead for supporting it is minimal, and as yet there are no
core features that can't be implemented for Heartbeat as well.
If either of those two things change, then we would have to
re-evaluate how best support Heartbeat in the following release
series.

There are no plans to change anything for the upcoming 1.1 and 1.2
release series (ie. the next 2-3 years).

> 2- Andrew, when shall we see Pacemaker in RHEL instead of Redhat Cluster
> Suite?

Red Hat has a very strict policy about discussing what "may or may not
be part of a current and/or future Red Hat products".
Having said that, I got approval to include the following in an
abstract I submitted for this years Red Hat Summit:

  "Pacemaker is the scalable High-Availability cluster resource
manager intended to be the successor to rgmanager."

Although I doubt using it on top of Heartbeat would ever be an option.