[Pacemaker] load balancing in a 3-node cluster

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Mark Smith <mark at bumptechnologies.com> wrote:
>> Try no-quorum-policy=freeze instead.
>
> I considered this option, but that puts us into a situation where if
> node X and Y fail, then resources from them won't be started up on Z.
> I would like to (if possible) avoid that -- I want one node to be able
> to take on everything.
>
> I realize this may be a pipe dream.

Yep. You cant have it both ways.
Either Z confirms X and Y are dead (with stonith) and starts their
services, or it doesn't and it doesn't :-)

> It is impossible to determine,
> from the point of view of Z, whether Z has failed or whether both X
> and Y have failed.  This is one reason for me to turn off STONITH --
> if Z has failed, at least it won't go murder X and Y.
>
>> Did a stop action fail?
>
> Uncertain.  I'll see if I can reproduce and try to record this data.
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
>
> --
> Mark Smith // Operations Lead
> mark at bumptechnologies.com
>