If you just want to play and learn with Failover, you don't have to have a multi-host aware storage solution. I have a couple of test servers setup, just using their local disk for storage. I have setup several services (httpd, sendmail, imap, and virtual IP) to fail over between the two servers, and has suited my needs. And if you really wanted to test an external storage source, you could use an NFS mount. The only difference in a production environment will be the presence of the storage system, and this is basically just handled by defining the shared file system as a shared resource. -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas Cameron Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:34 AM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Cheap way to practice clustering? Hi all - I posted about using firewire for clustering practice a couple of days ago. It turns out that this apparently requires a special, very expensive firewire solution. So I want to play around with clustering (as in high availability clustering a la Red Hat Cluster Suite, not computational clustering) at home so that I can become more proficient. The problem is, I don't want to buy a multi-thousand dollar SAN for my house. I wanted to find a way to do clustering on the cheap. I am not sure what path to take, so I am going to toss it to the list to see if anyone has any suggestions. I am totally open to older/used equipment. >From what I've been told, I need a storage device which is multi-host aware, so plain old firewire or even SCSI JBOD won't do. I've been looking at the specs at http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/cluster/hardware/. I'm leaning towards VMWare at this point, but I'd rather do it for real than in virtual machines. Any pointers? Thanks! Thomas -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
