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CentOS High Availability

You're reading from  CentOS High Availability

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785282485
Pages 174 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Toc

Table of Contents (21) Chapters close

CentOS High Availability
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Getting Started with High Availability 2. Meet the Cluster Stack on CentOS 3. Cluster Stack Software on CentOS 6 4. Resource Manager on CentOS 6 5. Playing with Cluster Nodes on CentOS 6 6. Fencing on CentOS 6 7. Testing Failover on CentOS 6 8. Two-node Cluster Considerations on CentOS 6 9. Cluster Stack Software on CentOS 7 10. Resource Manager on CentOS 7 11. Playing with Cluster Nodes on CentOS 7 12. STONITH on CentOS 7 13. Testing Failover on CentOS 7 14. Two-node Cluster Considerations on CentOS 7 Index

A theoretical cluster service example


In order to make it easy for you to understand the cluster service, you will be presented with a theoretical example of a two-node active/passive computer cluster providing a website cluster service. The active/passive cluster configuration only provides operational cluster services on the master cluster member at a given time, while the secondary cluster member waits on standby to take over if there is a master node failure. If the currently active cluster member fails, the cluster resources will be relocated and recovered on the operational secondary cluster member.

The following resources are required to run a simple website:

  • IP address—web server

  • Database server

  • Shared storage solution

All the listed resources must be installed and configured on the cluster node operating system and also added to the cluster resource manager configuration. In this way, the cluster resource manager is able to manage the resources and provide failover capabilities. The...

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