On 23/03/2006 14:21, "Steve Huff" shuff@vecna.org wrote:
you might want to think about run a Red Hat Cluster Suite cluster, since it's been ported to CentOS. read the readme here:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/csgfs/Readme.txt
be aware that while i believe that this system would satisfy your needs (based on the information you've provided), setting up CS/GFS is a nontrivial task. read all the docs and be sure you understand what you're doing; if not, ask.
important considerations:
- you *need* shared storage. use a fibre channel or iSCSI SAN, or
use an external disk chassis with a scsi controller for each host. 2) you *need* some automatic means of fencing (i.e. power-cycling) the hosts in the cluster. a network-controlled power switch will do this well; if you don't want to buy one, some servers have remote management ports that will permit fencing.
-steve
Hi Steve,
This solution would be perfect, by my problem is that Im renting the servers in the datacentre and I have no physical access. The servers are with fasthosts.co.uk so I cannot do something like this. I can only communicate between the servers using TCP/IP. Thanks for your recommendation though, I would love to be able to use it.
Regards, Wayne