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 [...]
Aug 30 2008
Channel bonding – or port truncking – gives the ability to apply a policy to a group of network interfaces. It is then possible to load-balance the traffic accross different ports, or keep one aside for failover.
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Declare the channel bonding bond0 interface into /etc/modprobe.conf
# Channel Bonding
alias bond0 bonding
options bond0 miimon=100 mode=1
# You can add [...]
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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