*** (0.96) *** Re: [LinuxFailSafe] A newbie question.

[Alan Robertson]

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Peter Kruse wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Oscar Pernas Plaza wrote:
>> Hello, I am newbie in clusters technologies, and I have to install a
>> cluster  wich provides as high availability. I am searching in the web
>> and i found many projects relationated with HA in linux, but I am not
>> sure what is the best solution for me.
>> In principle, I only want that the software provides me an hangchecker
>> timer, virtual ip that change if the node falls, a file system that
>> control the concurrency and control an oracle database.
>>
>> What is the best solution for this? Which are the advantages and the
>> disadvantages for use failsafe? Which are the differents between
>> failsafe and LVS+heartbeat+ldirector?
>>
>> Thanks at all.
>>
> 
> Failsafe is a dead project.  Some of the code and developers continue
> on heartbeat.  You should contact SUSE, because that's mainly the
> company working on heartbeat, and get a support contract for heartbeat.

SGI has moved some people onto heartbeat as well.  If you don't want
to/can't use SUSE Linux (>=SLES10), then check the
http://linux-ha.org/Support link for most up to date support info.

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    Alan Robertson <alanr at unix.sh>

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