[Pacemaker] Which Linux to use for cluster

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Michael Schwartzkopff
<misch at multinet.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 16. März 2010 20:43:32 schrieb Winkler Norbert:
>> Hallo again Forum
>> It seems that  a failed the second time building a pacemaker cluster
>> first with opensuse 11. 2 onboard software
>> second with opensuse 11.2 with repository from clusterlab
>> It seems that it worked but i couldn't write the  resource pemanently
>> into the cib,
>> i posted it  to  this forum ....
>>
>> So what i want is a pacemaker cluster with drbd to run openiscsitarget
>> as redundant storage for an esx server.
>> I work for an Austrian monestary Karmelitenkonvent (www.karmel.at)  and
>> i am a one man show for the whole Monestary in Austria.
>>
>> I have to servers with netto 5 TB each ( one is 3ware raid with raid 5
>> (sohuld  be secondary) and one is 3ware raid with raid 50)
>> Each server has two two nics i used  it in my last try one with cross
>> over for drbd and the other for the normal connection.
>>
>> So please tell me with which linux variant  i  have the best chance to
>> make this work as i want  and with which variant i can also get
>> a litttle help
>>
>> Thank you in advance
>> Norbert Winkler
>
> Hi,
>
> The problem is that no distribution has a good recent verion of pacemaker
> included

Fedora-12 has 1.0.7 and I'll probably push in 1.0.8 (released last
night) later today.
Its also what I do all my testing on, and the reference distro for
"clusters from scratch".

> and you have to find out or to known which version of pacemaker really
> works good for what distribution. But this can change daily.

Huh?

The only version/distro specific issues I know of are with Debian.
Its highly unfair to generalize Debian's problems to mean all distros.

>
> I prefer Debian Lenny for the moment and use 1.0.6 of pacemaker form madkiss
> repository. There is one bug in 1.0.6 you have to know about regarding the use
> of the GUI. Otherwise it is quite usable for simple setups.
>
> But I hope that Madkiss' repository will soon be updated to the latest version
> 1.0.8.
>
> Also You have to know that a kernel update last Thursday broke Lennys DRBD
> module if you installed 8.0.14 from the usual repositories. I hope they fix it
> in the near future.
>
> I had my problems with other distributions especially with opensuse 11.2. see
> my bug reports / postings to this list.
>
> The main developement if done also on Fedora, so this should also be a good
> option.
>
> You see: I have most experience in Debian. You have to find out yourself.
>
> Start with SIMPLE resources, not with a DRBD/iSCSI-SAN setup.
>
> Greetings,
>
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