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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Opinions
for a two node Active-Passive/Fail-over System.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Preferences:
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">1. I’d like
to use a dedicated NIC with cross-over cable for the heartbeat messages.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">2. I’d like
the ability to power fence (STONITH) using IPMI enabled motherboards over ethernet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Have been
looking at Redhat Cluster Suite.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I understand
that a lot of people define a cluster to be a system of 3 or more nodes and no
less.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">RHCS does
appear well tested, but appears not to be able to do preference #1.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Have been
looking at Heart-beat with Pacemaker.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Looks to be
what I want so far.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">What are
others using?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p>
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