[Pacemaker] Corosync vs Heartbeat

Andrew Beekhof andrew at beekhof.net
Mon Apr 30 02:52:20 UTC 2012


On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:49 PM, S, MOHAMED (MOHAMED)** CTR **
<mohamed.s at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> In our team, couple of years back, we tried to setup 2 nodes Active/Passive HA using pacemaker-1.0.5 and heartbeat-3.0.0
>
> Now, I need to resume that work. First thing I thought I will update the libraries. Looks like I need to replace heartbeat with corosync.
>
> When I looked at the following links in clusterlabs.org site, to my knowledge the recent version available for pacemaker is 1.1.7
>
> http://theclusterguy.clusterlabs.org/
>
> http://www.clusterlabs.org/wiki/Get_Pacemaker
>
> And based the corosync.org site, the latest version is 2.0.0
>
> http://www.corosync.org/doku.php?id=releases
>
> If there are more recent and stable versions available that you can suggest, please let me know.
>
> If I have updates for RHEL 5.7, will I be able to build it myself?

No. You'll need to at least update glib as well before you build.
But since you appear to have a RHEL license, why not update to RHEL6
and use the versions of pacemaker/corosync that come with it?

>
> Thanks,
> Raffi
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andrew Beekhof [mailto:andrew at beekhof.net]
>> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 7:19 AM
>> To: The Pacemaker cluster resource manager
>> Subject: Re: [Pacemaker] Corosync vs Heartbeat
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 7:56 PM, S, MOHAMED (MOHAMED)** CTR **
>> <mohamed.s at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > If I want to try Pacemaker 1.1.7 and Corosync 2.0 in RHEL 5.0,
>> >
>> > Where can I find the set of rpms?
>>
>> You'd have to build them yourself.
>> And submit a patch to get it to build there at all I think (because
>> glib is so old).
>>
>> Why not use something a little more recent?
>>
>> > I could not find it in the following location
>> > http://www.clusterlabs.org/rpm-next/epel-5/x86_64/
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Raffi
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: S, MOHAMED (MOHAMED)** CTR **
>> >> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 1:16 PM
>> >> To: 'Digimer'; The Pacemaker cluster resource manager
>> >> Subject: RE: [Pacemaker] Corosync vs Heartbeat
>> >>
>> >> Digimer,
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for your advise.
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Raffi
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > -----Original Message-----
>> >> > From: Digimer [mailto:lists at alteeve.ca]
>> >> > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 5:32 PM
>> >> > To: The Pacemaker cluster resource manager
>> >> > Cc: S, MOHAMED (MOHAMED)** CTR **
>> >> > Subject: Re: [Pacemaker] Corosync vs Heartbeat
>> >> >
>> >> > On 04/13/2012 07:35 AM, S, MOHAMED (MOHAMED)** CTR ** wrote:
>> >> > > Hi,
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Which combination is good for a 2 node Active - Passive
>> configuration?
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Pacemaker + Corosync
>> >> > >
>> >> > > or
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Pacemaker + heartbeat
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Thanks,
>> >> > > Raffi
>> >> >
>> >> > Heartbeat is deprecated and no longer developed (though it is
>> maintained
>> >> > by Linbit). It is strongly advised that you use corosync.
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Digimer
>> >> > Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com
>> >
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