[Pacemaker] Inter-cluster communication using Heartbeat and Pacemaker

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 5:44 PM, neha chatrath <nehachatrath at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Andreas,
>
> There is a system requirement according to which:
> 1. There are 2 independent clusters : 1 for data plane 2. for control plane
> 2. These clusters are connected to each other through IP/Ethernet
> connectivity for transmission and reception of control plane signalling only
> i.e. user plane traffic does not go through control plane cluster.
> 3. Nodes in the control plane cluster needs to know the status of the nodes
> in data plane to apply e.g. load balancing algorithms at its end.
> Thus, inter cluster communication is required.

You'd either need to put them in the same cluster or, use some other
mechanism to remotely run a command on the data plane to find out its
current node list.

You can't use the cluster software to talk between the two planes
without making them part of the same cluster.

> Thanks and regards
> Neha Chatrath
>
> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 21:27:51 +1100
> From: Andrew Beekhof <andrew at beekhof.net>
> To: The Pacemaker cluster resource manager
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> Subject: Re: [Pacemaker] Inter-cluster communication using Heartbeat
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> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:41 PM, neha chatrath <nehachatrath at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there a way to do inter-cluster communication using Heartbeat/Pacemaker
>> framework?
>
> Well by definition if the two nodes can talk to each other they're
> part of the same cluster.
> What are you trying to achieve?
>
>>
>> Thanks and regards
>> Neha Chatrath
>>
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:11 PM, neha chatrath <nehachatrath at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there a way to do inter-cluster communication using Heartbeat/Pacemaker
>> framework?
>>
>> Thanks and regards
>> Neha Chatrath
>>
>
>
>
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