[ClusterLabs] One cluster with two groups of nodes

[Alberto Mijares]

>
> Colocation constraints may take a "node-attribute" parameter, that
> basically means, "Put this resource on a node of the same class as the
> one running resource X".
>
> In this case, you might set a "group" node attribute on all nodes, to
> "1" on the three primary nodes and "2" on the three failover nodes.
> Pick one resource as your base resource that everything else should go
> along with. Configure colocation constraints for all the other
> resources with that one, using "node-attribute=group". That means that
> all the other resources must be one a node with the same "group"
> attribute value as the node that the base resource is running on.
>
> "node-attribute" defaults to "#uname" (node name), this giving the
> usual behavior of colocation constraints: put the resource only on a
> node with the same name, i.e. the same node.
>
> The remaining question is, how do you want the base resource to fail
> over? If the base resource can fail over to any other node, whether in
> the same group or not, then you're done. If the base resource can only
> run on one node in each group, ban it from the other nodes using
> -INFINITY location constraints. If the base resource should only fail
> over to the opposite group, that's trickier, but something roughly
> similar would be to prefer one node in each group with an equal
> positive score location constraint, and migration-threshold=1.


I just want to let you know that this worked like a charm.

Again, thank you very much.

Best regards,


Alberto Mijares