Tuesday, August 28, 2018

a day at the office, spare rh ha license

Ok so I finally got HA/GFS2 nodes at work.  I'm getting a lot of mileage out of the licenses I was allowed to use, more than I expected.  First of all, a RH "unit" actually counts as one half when ran as virtual machines.  This enabled me to run a 6-pack stack consisting of 2 routers (keepalive/haproxy), 2 fileservers (GFS2), and 2 PGSQL (Active/Passive nodes).

Today I discovered that the RH Resilient Storage (GFS2) license already includes HA (pacemaker) license.  I called RH support to verify and make sure.  So, I can take that license and build corosync Q devices.  Our 2-node clusters are going to be upgraded with Q devices. 

It is a nice day.

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