Aug 20 2009
Most of us already know cluster features aren’t provided on Windows 2003 server Standard Edition.
The thing is you’ve got a shared storage space but you can’t (or don’t want to) afford 2 Windows Enterprise licences just for a file server.
There is DFS indeed but one acknowledge it is a pity to replicate data that resides [...]
Jan 20 2008
Since version 2, Heartbeat is able to manage more than 2 nodes, and doesn’t need "mon" utility to monitor services.
This fonctionnality is now implemented within Heartbeat.
As a consequence, this flexibility and new features may make it harder to configure.
It’s intresting to know version 1 configuration files are still supported.
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Apr 18 2007
When a Mysql server contains critical data, it’s always a good idea to rely on more than one server.
Implementing a cluster would be ideal in this situation and could offer a high availability setup.
It gives the option to replace a node if it fails with no disruption of service or even data loss.
The fact is [...]