[ClusterLabs] Pacemaker quorum behavior

[Klaus Wenninger]

On 09/08/2016 03:55 PM, Scott Greenlese wrote:
>
> Hi all...
>
> I have a few very basic questions for the group.
>
> I have a 5 node (Linux on Z LPARs) pacemaker cluster with 100
> VirtualDomain pacemaker-remote nodes
> plus 100 "opaque" VirtualDomain resources. The cluster is configured
> to be 'symmetric' and I have no
> location constraints on the 200 VirtualDomain resources (other than to
> prevent the opaque guests
> from running on the pacemaker remote node resources). My quorum is set
> as:
>
> quorum {
> provider: corosync_votequorum
> }
>
> As an experiment, I powered down one LPAR in the cluster, leaving 4
> powered up with the pcsd service up on the 4 survivors
> but corosync/pacemaker down (pcs cluster stop --all) on the 4
> survivors. I then started pacemaker/corosync on a single cluster
>

"pcs cluster stop" shuts down pacemaker & corosync on my test-cluster but
did you check the status of the individual services?

> node (pcs cluster start), and this resulted in the 200 VirtualDomain
> resources activating on the single node.
> This was not what I was expecting. I assumed that no resources would
> activate / start on any cluster nodes
> until 3 out of the 5 total cluster nodes had pacemaker/corosync running.
>
> After starting pacemaker/corosync on the single host (zs95kjpcs1),
> this is what I see :
>
> [root at zs95kj VD]# date;pcs status |less
> Wed Sep 7 15:51:17 EDT 2016
> Cluster name: test_cluster_2
> Last updated: Wed Sep 7 15:51:18 2016 Last change: Wed Sep 7 15:30:12
> 2016 by hacluster via crmd on zs93kjpcs1
> Stack: corosync
> Current DC: zs95kjpcs1 (version 1.1.13-10.el7_2.ibm.1-44eb2dd) -
> partition with quorum
> 106 nodes and 304 resources configured
>
> Node zs93KLpcs1: pending
> Node zs93kjpcs1: pending
> Node zs95KLpcs1: pending
> Online: [ zs95kjpcs1 ]
> OFFLINE: [ zs90kppcs1 ]
>
> .
> .
> .
> PCSD Status:
> zs93kjpcs1: Online
> zs95kjpcs1: Online
> zs95KLpcs1: Online
> zs90kppcs1: Offline
> zs93KLpcs1: Online
>
> So, what exactly constitutes an "Online" vs. "Offline" cluster node
> w.r.t. quorum calculation? Seems like in my case, it's "pending" on 3
> nodes,
> so where does that fall? Any why "pending"? What does that mean?
>
> Also, what exactly is the cluster's expected reaction to quorum loss?
> Cluster resources will be stopped or something else?
>
Depends on how you configure it using cluster property no-quorum-policy
(default: stop).
>
>
> Where can I find this documentation?
>
http://clusterlabs.org/doc/en-US/Pacemaker/1.1/html/Pacemaker_Explained/
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Scott Greenlese - IBM Solution Test Team.
>
>
>
> Scott Greenlese ... IBM Solutions Test, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
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