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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks for the reference.Let me tell you
what I want exactly.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am working in a project which has a
management Station running on RHEL 4.0.This Management Station is a “unified
Deployment Framework” which has Veritas Opforce(Hope you know about that
).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>VERITAS OpForce™ allows you to access, control,
and provision servers at any location securely through an encrypted connection.
In addition to server deployments, system administrators can assign IP
addresses, track software licenses, automatically discover and track server
assets, generate reports, update software applications with patches or service
packs and remotely run scripts.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Now the Project main aim is After Management Station
is installed with opforce,if any node is allowed to boot,it will boot thru PXE
Boot rather than booting from DHCP as a result, it will boot from Management
station and a required nodes will be ready automatically come up with required
packages installed automatically. No need to install the other systems manually
This Architecture will automatically install all the packages being controlled
through Management Station.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Now We are in attempt to Setup Cluster. Cluster controlled
through Opforce. So Say I have two nodes Node-1 and Node-2 and a Management
Station(with Opforce).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Now I don’t have Shared Storage(We ordered for
MS1500 but it will come after few months).What I want to try is Alternative so
that I can setu meanwhile).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I have a RHEL 4.0 Machine with 40GB.Will that do?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>How many machines do we need?I went through your
advised doc and it says “primary-primary” Stuff.Do I need two RHEL Servers.???</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:windowtext'> drbd-user-bounces@lists.linbit.com
[mailto:drbd-user-bounces@lists.linbit.com] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>CA Lists<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 02, 2008
8:19 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> drbd-user@lists.linbit.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [DRBD-user] Setting
Up Red Hat Cluster..</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>To the original poster - it
sounds like you're essentially looking for a cheap, home-brewed SAN solution. A
while back I put together a quick how-to on creating a redundant SAN solution
using DRBD, iSCSI, and OCFS2. You can view it here:<br>
<br>
<a
href="http://www.tedeology.com/2008/03/how-to-create-iscsi-san-using-heartbeat.html">http://www.tedeology.com/2008/03/how-to-create-iscsi-san-using-heartbeat.html</a><br>
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Hope that helps.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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Mark Watts wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>On Wednesday 02 July 2008 14:26:03 Singh Raina, Ajeet wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt' type=cite><pre wrap=""><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Well I know this forum is related to DRBD but As I know My firm wont let<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>me purchase GFS I need another alternative.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I posted the same question in fedoraforum and one of the expert advise<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>me such:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>You could install the iscsi-target, and export some of the space via<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>iscsi... that would work for the shared storage requirement.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Of course, it would be best to buy a real iscsi array.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>***************<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Can You please help me out setting the Shared Storage in the above<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>case.just need your advise.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre></blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Using iSCSI as your shared storage would still require a clustered filesystem <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>to allow concurrent access to files from more than one node. (In theory you <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>could export /dev/drbd0 as an iSCSI device, but that doesn't get away from <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>iSCSI simply being a network block-device, not a filesystem).<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>If you simply want to have a filesystem mirrored to another system for use in <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>an Primary/Secondary scenario (typically using Heartbeat to provide <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>fail-over) then there is no need to use a clustered filesystem, since only <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>one node will be directly accessing the block-device at a time.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>EXT3 will work just fine for this.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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