This article will briefly explains about configuring the GFS2 filesystem between two cluster nodes. As you know that GFS2 is cluster filesystem and it can be mounted on more than one server at a time . Since multiple servers can mount the same filesystem, it uses the DLM (Dynamic Lock Manager) to prevent the data corruption. […]
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RHEL 7 – Accessing the Pacemaker WEB UI (GUI) – Part 11
Pacemaker offers web based user interface portal to manage the cluster. It also provides an interface to manage multiple clusters in single web UI. We can’t really say that WEB UI has all the options to manage the cluster. I would say that command line is much easier and simple when you compare to GUI. However , […]
RHEL 7 – Pacemaker – Configure Redundant Corosync Links on Fly– Part 10
Corosync cluster engine provides the reliable inter-cluster communications between the cluster nodes. It syncs the cluster configuration across the cluster nodes all the time. It also maintains the cluster membership and notifies when quorum is achieved or lost. It provides the messaging layer inside the cluster to manage the system and resource availability. In Veritas cluster , this functionality has […]
RHEL 7 – Pacemaker – Define the Resource Behaviour – Part 9
In Pacemaker/Corosync cluster, there are may aspects/key elements that we need to understand before playing with cluster operations. Otherwise , it might cause unnecessary outage/downtime for the services. The most important elements are setting the preferred resource location , ordering (defining dependencies) , resource fail counts, resource-stickiness, colocation, clone, master/slave, promote/demote etc. Let’s go through the article and […]