[Linux-cluster] Networking guidelines for RHCS across datacenters

[brem belguebli]

Hello,

That sounds pretty much to the question I've asked to this mailing-list last
May (https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-cluster/2009-May/msg00093.html).

We are in the same setup, already doing "Geo-cluster" with other technos and
we are looking at RHCS to provide us the same service level.

Latency could be a problem indeed if too high , but in a lot of cases (many
companies for which I've worked), datacenters are a few tens of kilometers
far, with a latency max close to 1 ms, which is not a problem.

Let's consider this kind of setup, 2 datacenters far from each other by 1 ms
delay, each hosting a SAN array, each of them connected to 2 SAN fabrics
extended between the 2 sites.

What reason would prevent us from building Geo-clusters without having to
rely on a database replication mechanism, as the setup I would like to
implement would also be used to provide NFS services that are disaster
recovery proof.

Obviously, such setup should rely on LVM mirroring to allow a node hosting a
service to be able to write to both local and distant SAN LUN's.

Brem


2009/6/3, Fajar A. Nugraha <fajar at fajar.net>:
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Jon Schulz
> <jschulz at soapstonenetworks.com> wrote:
> > I'm in the process of doing a concept review with the redhat cluster
> suite.
> > I've been given a requirement that cluster nodes are able to be located
> in
> > geographically separated data centers. I realize that this is not an
> ideal
> > scenario due to latency issues.
>
> For most purposes, RHCS would require that all nodes have access to
> the same storage/disk. That pretty much ruled out the DR  feature that
> one might expect to get from having nodes in geographically separated
> data centers.
>
> I'd suggest you refine your requirements. Perhaps what you need is
> something like MySQL cluster replication, where there are two
> geographically separated data centers, each having its own cluster,
> and the two clusters replicate each other's data asynchronously.
>
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