[LinuxFailSafe] FailSafe and SLES8

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2003-03-28T17:18:12,
   Bráulio Gergull <gergull@getnet.com.br> said:

> I'd like to know if there are any plans for further integration of the 
> Linux FailSafe into SLES8?

No.

> So what I'd like to hear from SuSE is what is the recommended way to go 
> through when talking about HA and SLES8?

We provide heartbeat out of the box - yes, I of course know that it is much
limitted compared to the very powerful FailSafe, but there were several very
good reasons for this switch.

For more complicated clustering scenarios on SLES8, please consider 3rd party
software such as SteelEye LifeKeeper or PolyServe MatrixCluster, both of which
are excellent products and fully supported on SLES8. (This, by the way,
extends to all UnitedLinux based distributions, as Conectiva might be the
better contact for you in .br)

We also work to extend heartbeat - which has a very solid core, but no fancy
resource manager / failover policy system yet - in the future to be just as
powerful as existing solutions, if not even exceed them.

We seem to have bet on the right horse, hopefully - heartbeat has already
attracted more developers than FailSafe ever had (in the Open Source
community), and for example the IBM EVMS group has provided their Open Source
clustered volume manager on top of the heartbeat comm / membership
infrastructure.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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