This is a tutorial that Yves Trudeau and I presented at the Percona Live UK 2012 conference in London. It covers Pacemaker integration with DRBD, MySQL Replication, and Galera.

It never fails. Someone manages to break their Pacemaker cluster, and Henrik starts preaching his usual sermon of why Pacemaker is terrible and why you should never-ever use it. And when that someone is GitHub, which we all know, use and love, then that sermon gets a bit of excess attention. Let’s take a quick look at the facts.

In a Pacemaker cluster, as in a standalone system, operators must complete maintenance tasks such as software upgrades and configuration changes. Here’s what you need to keep Pacemaker’s built-in monitoring features from creating unwanted side effects.

Maintenance mode

This is quite possibly Pacemaker’s single most useful feature …

This presentation was delivered July 17, 2012 at OSCON in Portland, Oregon.

I summarize high availability in OpenStack Folsom, particularly OpenStack integration with the Pacemaker high availability cluster stack.

I talk about high availability shortcomings in OpenStack Essex, comparing OpenStack to some of its important competitors. I then explain how …

For users of VMware virtualization, it’s becoming increasingly common to deploy Pacemaker clusters within the virtual infrastructure. Doing this requires that you set up fencing via ESX Server or, more commonly, vCenter. Here’s how to do that.

The cluster-glue package contains node Pacemaker’s fencing (STONITH) plugins, one …