Re: Quorum partition - does it have to be raw?

Thanks. You do see my delimma, right? Clustering requires raw partition. Raw partition cannot be placed on the Network Appliance (as far as we know - checking into that more). No more slots in the 1U servers to have yet another adapter to access another storage solution for the raw partition. Bummer.

Anyhow. We'll figure something out. Maybe FCP (fibre channel protocol) for SCSI or iSCSI on the FAS960 would allow us to have a raw partition.... checking into it. If that doesn't pan out, we'll have to look at other clustering solutions (Heartbeat, and others).

Later,

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:54:25AM -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway filled up my inbox with the following:
> On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 08:53, Philip Greer wrote:
> > Figured so. Thanks for the response.
> > 
> > I recall, a long while ago (6.2 version days) that there was some 
> > chatter to have an alternative to the raw partitions for cluster node 
> > state sharing for Piranha. 
> 
> Back in those days, Piranha didn't really support shared storage
> failover clustering. It relied entirely on its serial/network heartbeats
> to perform its status checks between the two nodes.
> 
> But that was before Red Hat Cluster Manager came out, which is several
> light years more advanced than Piranha, and Piranha is now only
> supported as a front end to ipvs. You could probably still configure
> Piranha as a two node HA cluster using only serial/network heartbeats,
> but Red Hat stopped supporting that configuration about a year and a
> half ago.
> 
> ~spot
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