[Pacemaker] Config Sanity Check - Postgres, OCFS2 etc

[David Morton]

Afternoon all,

We're cutting over from OpenSUSE and straight heartbeat based on ext3 (two
node active passive) to SLES, Pacemaker / Corosync, and OCFS2 in a split
role active/passive configuration (three databases, two on one server and
one on the other which can fail over to each other).

As this is my first experience with the new Pacemaker / Corosync stack and
OCFS2 I would like to get the configuration validated by more experienced
users to ensure there will be no big issues.

Also I have some related queries:
1) On a latest gen x86 IBM server what is the best / appropriate STONITH
resource to use for control via the built in IMM interface ?
2) Is there an OCF compliant resource agent for JavaDB / Derby ? Currently
am using a nasty init script for its start / stop. I can't seem to find one
anywhere.
3) Does the use of a group command negate the use of a colocation command ?
4) Do you have to be very careful around the timeout values specified for
timeouts relative to things like SAN multipath failover times, bonded
interface convergence times and OCFS2 / filesystem related timeouts ? ie:
Can Pacemaker end up with things chasing their tail, small blip in
connectivity turns into a major ?

Also an unrelated query which I'm sure somebody will know:
5) Is the use of CLVM mandatory for the OCFS2 filesystem, or is it simply
used if you wish to use logical volumes with online resizing capability ?
6) Is there danger in having a SAN disk visible to two servers at once (with
non clustered filesystem such as ext3) but only ever mounted on one ? This
is the scenario we will be using and ext3 gives performance gains over OCFS2
so if there is no danger it would be preferable to use.

Current config is as per the below for review:

node company-prod-db-001
node company-prod-db-002
primitive DERBYDB lsb:derby
primitive FS_DB_DEPOT ocf:heartbeat:Filesystem \
        params device="-LDB_DEPOT" directory="/DB_DEPOT" fstype="ocfs2"
options="acl" \
        op start interval="0" timeout="60" \
        op stop interval="0" timeout="60"
primitive FS_DB_ESP_AUDIT ocf:heartbeat:Filesystem \
        params device="-LDB_ESP_AUDIT" directory="/DB_ESP_AUDIT"
fstype="ocfs2" options="acl" \
        op start interval="0" timeout="60" \
        op stop interval="0" timeout="60"
primitive FS_LOGS_DEPOT ocf:heartbeat:Filesystem \
        params device="-LLOGS_DEPOT" directory="/LOGS_DEPOT" fstype="ocfs2"
options="data=writeback,noatime,acl" \
        op start interval="0" timeout="60" \
        op stop interval="0" timeout="60"
primitive FS_LOGS_ESP_AUDIT ocf:heartbeat:Filesystem \
        params device="-LLOGS_ESP_AUDIT" directory="/LOGS_ESP_AUDIT"
fstype="ocfs2" options="data=writeback,noatime,acl" \
        op start interval="0" timeout="60" \
        op stop interval="0" timeout="60"
primitive IP_DEPOT_15 ocf:heartbeat:IPaddr2 \
        params ip="192.168.15.93" cidr_netmask="24" \
        op monitor interval="30s"
primitive IP_DEPOT_72 ocf:heartbeat:IPaddr2 \
        params ip="192.168.72.93" cidr_netmask="24" \
        op monitor interval="30s"
primitive IP_ESP_AUDIT_15 ocf:heartbeat:IPaddr2 \
        params ip="192.168.15.92" cidr_netmask="24" \
        op monitor interval="30s"
primitive IP_ESP_AUDIT_72 ocf:heartbeat:IPaddr2 \
        params ip="192.168.72.92" cidr_netmask="24" \
        op monitor interval="30s"
primitive PGSQL_AUDIT ocf:heartbeat:pgsql.audit \
        op start interval="0" timeout="120" \
        op stop interval="0" timeout="120"
primitive PGSQL_DEPOT ocf:heartbeat:pgsql.depot \
        op start interval="0" timeout="120" \
        op stop interval="0" timeout="120"
primitive PGSQL_ESP ocf:heartbeat:pgsql.esp \
        op start interval="0" timeout="120" \
        op stop interval="0" timeout="120"
group DEPOT FS_LOGS_DEPOT FS_DB_DEPOT IP_DEPOT_15 IP_DEPOT_72 DERBYDB
PGSQL_DEPOT
group ESP_AUDIT FS_LOGS_ESP_AUDIT FS_DB_ESP_AUDIT IP_ESP_AUDIT_15
IP_ESP_AUDIT_72 PGSQL_AUDIT PGSQL_ESP
location LOC_DEPOT DEPOT 25: company-prod-db-001
location LOC_ESP_AUDIT ESP_AUDIT 25: company-prod-db-002
property $id="cib-bootstrap-options" \
        dc-version="1.1.2-2e096a41a5f9e184a1c1537c82c6da1093698eb5" \
        cluster-infrastructure="openais" \
        expected-quorum-votes="2" \
        no-quorum-policy="ignore" \
        stonith-enabled="false" \
        start-failure-is-fatal="false"
rsc_defaults $id="rsc-options" \
        resource-stickiness="100"
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