[Pacemaker] First confused (then enlightened ? :)

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Carlos G Mendioroz <tron at huapi.ba.ar> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to understand how to best implement a HA EE service.
> Searching for linux + HA induced me to go linux-HA way (heartbeat?)
> and that showed the path to pacemaker, and that open the way to corosync
> and OpenAIS. No news for you I guess.
>
> Is there a searchable repository of the list content so I may find
> if some of my doubts are already explained ?
>
> I have otherwise some specific questions:
>
> -Is still the case that Heartbeat is not to be considered for new
> deployments ? (I read something along that line)

pretty much

http://www.clusterlabs.org/wiki/FAQ#Should_I_Run_Pacemaker_on_Heartbeat_or_Coroysnc.3F

> -All IBM docs (RedBooks) point to Heartbeat. Is that because they are old ?

yes

> -I'm looking to implement Active + hot standby, and given my present
> state of understanding, I was targetting something like VRRP + cluster
> aware service. As I have a networking background, implementing VRRP
> sounds sweet, but not migrating the MAC is kind of bitter.
>
> Is it ok to discuss such details here ?

sure

also have a look at clusters from scratch:
   http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc