If MySQL happens to die in your cluster, Pacemaker will automatically recover the service in place. To test this, select any node on your cluster and send the mysqld process a KILL signal:

killall -KILL mysqld

Then, monitor your cluster status with crm_mon -rf. After a few seconds, you should …

Ceph allows you to replace existing SAN storage (or SAN drop-in substitutes) with a flexible storage solution with real scale-out capabilities. Here is how you migrate existing virtual machines managed by libvirt from block-based storage to a Ceph based storage solution.

Prerequisites

What you'll need in order to successfully manage …

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 for cluster maintenance …

If you've heard of Ceph, you've surely heard of radosgw, a RESTful gateway interface to the RADOS object store. You've probably also heard that it provides a front-end interface that is compatible with Amazon's S3 API.

The question remains, if you have an S3 client that always assumes it can …

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 of which is …