[Linux-cluster] This configuration could work??

Lon Hohberger lhh at redhat.com
Tue Sep 27 17:19:58 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 18:22 +0200, carlopmart at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I would like to test RHGS with RHCS, but I have got only one server. 
> My idea is to use VMWare GSX Server. My explain:
> 
>   - VMWare GSX host server acts as GFS server.
>   - Two virtual machines with RHCS using fence_gnbd as fence device 
> connected to GFS server.
> 
>   is it possible to do this configuration with only one server using GFS???
> 
> Thank you very much for your help and sorry my bad english.
> 
> P.D: I will use CentOS 4.1 for host and virtual machines.
> 

It should work, but typically multiple physical machines are used to
achieve HA, as HA works around hardware failures (or should).  If your
host server fails, your entire cluster fails.

-- Lon




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