[CentOS] High Availability and Storage Cluster

Wed Feb 9 14:48:42 UTC 2011
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Denis Zaharov wrote:
> Dear mailing list members,
>
> There was a branch about clusters, but I have a certain task.
>
> There are two servers with CentOS 5.5 installed.
> The servers are working with Zabbix (monitoring system for traffic,
> using a MySQL), wiki and RT (all are using Apache).
> If one server will have became not available then necessary start these
> services on another server with replication of data.
>
> Can I use the Red Hat Cluster Suite for it at CentOS?
> Also I heard about Heartbeat and DRBD. Maybe it is what I need?

I've not worked with the RH Cluster Suite, but I think it, or heartbeat,
is what you want. By the way, what you're describing is called h/a (high
availability) failover (knowing the right terms will help your googling),
and that's exactly what it's for.

         mark