Joe Sloan wrote:
Aaron Kulkis wrote:
The whole idea is VERY similar to the runlevel concept, except that you can (should) have a lot more states available, depending on the software.
There is software for doing high availability clusters in the suse repos, it's called heartbeat. The heartbeat website has tutorials. It does have a learning curve, and some assembly required.
Back in the 8.x and 9.x, heartbeat and stonith (shoot the other node in the head) were part of the all of the "SusE _._ Professional" distros. I was disappointed to not see it in 10.1. My personal experience with HA systems have been a Sequent Cluster I used to admin in the 90's, and indirect dealings as assistant supervisor at the General Motors Supercomputing site for about a year in 2001/2002 (then GM layed me off, then the US Army mobilized me).
There are some tutorials on the site -
Thanks for the URL.
Joe
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