[ale] Opinions for a two node Active-Passive/Failover System.

[Jerald Sheets]

The hot/hot round-robin DNS solution sounds the simplest.

If, however, you really want to cluster and let an IP float around, go to 

http://linux-ha.org

This is the site for clustered Linux (aka "Heartbeat") and has many of the features I believe you're looking for.  I've not done service failover with it before, but if you run the two hot/hot and fail just the IP between them, that should work nicely.

There's pretty good docs, and for what you can't get there, there is an IRC channel as well.

Good luck!  Sounds like an interesting project.

--Jerald


On Oct 21, 2010, at 7:23 AM, Richard Bronosky wrote:

> I fully agree. Unless you plan to keep the STONITHed server powered
> down until you can approach it physically and remove the primary eth
> cable, you have to make considerations for booting the thing into a
> safe mode. But, your needs don't sound like they should require such
> complication.
> 
> On 10/20/10, Dennis Ruzeski <denniruz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For something like that I'd run hot/hot with round robin DNS rather
>> than complicate the works with a cluster setup.
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:09 PM, C Hendry <gchendry at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>> For what application? Are you going to fail over storage?
>>> 
>>> --Dennis
>>> 
>>> 
>>> No storage, no shared file system, just purely a service, it is a
>>> streaming
>>> audio server.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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