How To make a Fail Over Cluster (FOC) with RedHat AS-4.

[Tom Callahan]

GFS and Cluster Suite is your solution. Check with RedHat.

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Tom Callahan
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giri sagar wrote:

>Hi There,
>
>SUB: How To make a Fail Over Cluster (FOC) with RedHat AS-4.
>
>I was looking for any kind suggestions, help and guidance.....
>
>I have two high end servers with exactly same Hardware configuration, loaded
>with redhat AS-4 (2.6.9-5), both the server A and B (say) having dual xeon
>3.6 GHz with 2 GB RAM, 2x147 GB SCSI HDD (mirrored) and etc...
>
>Server-A is up and running with the Grid middle ware applications like
>globus, job scheduler and this is the node where the grid users access and
>submit their jobs ( The job will get executed on some other available
>resources and don't get worried about it; the scheduler will take care of
>that... :)
>
>Now for the Server-B; I manually done the partitioning and the mirroring
>just like what I had done on the server A. I haven't installed anything on B
>but the OS  ( Its fresh ! )
>
>
>Well, here follows my Questions :-
>
>1. Is there any option to get the exact image of all the stuffs (data,
>services, applications, partitioning, "everything" ) what I have it on my
>Server-A to the Server-B ?
>    a) Ghost    b) Mondo    c) option 'c' is better than all the above.
>
>2. What is the best possible way to make a fail-over cluster between the
>server-A and Server-B ? ( The word "fail-over" connotes what I mean and the
>requirement)
>
>Any comment on this will be appreciated and Thanks in Advance.
>
>Thank You
>
>~vipin
>  
>