[Pacemaker] 2-node cluster with shared storage: what is current solution

[Саша Александров]

Lars,

thanks for answering.
Actually, there was no fencing. The reason was - even if one node "goes
wild" and start its own Oracle instance - we could discard the faulty one
no problem, and the invalidate drbd resource and resync.
However, this will not do with shared storage: now we can not afford
starting instance in case network connectivity is lost but shared storage
access is still availiable.

fence_sanlock seems to be ideologically the same as sdb. However - no sound
tutorials/explanations.

I am even thinking of writing some custom RA to implement  resource-level
fencing (I have other resources, do not want to restart the whole node)




2014-03-19 20:14 GMT+04:00 Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb at suse.com>:

> On 2014-03-19T19:20:35, Саша Александров <shurrman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Now, we got shared storage over multipath FC there, so we need to move
> from
> > drbd to shared storage. And I got totally confused now - I can not find a
> > guide on how to set things up. I see two options:
> > - use gfs2
> > - use ext4 with sbd
>
> If you don't need concurrent access from both nodes to the same file
> system, using ext4/XFS in a fail-over configuration is to be preferred
> over the complexity of a cluster file system like GFS2/OCFS2.
>
> RHT has chosen to not ship sbd, unfortunately, so you can't use this
> very reliable fencing mechanism on CentOS/RHEL. Or you'd have to build
> it yourself. Assuming you have hardware fencing right now, you can
> continue to use that too.
>
>
> Regards,
>     Lars
>
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