4.3. Clustering and High Availability

The luci tool now supports the sanlock fence agent as a Technology Preview. The agent is available in the luci's list of agents.

Package: luci-0.26.0-48

New fence_sanlock agent and checkquorum.wdmd, included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 as a Technology Preview, provide new mechanisms to trigger the recovery of a node via a hardware watchdog device. Tutorials on how to enable this Technology Preview will be available at https://fedorahosted.org/cluster/wiki/HomePage

Note that SELinux in enforcing mode is currently not supported.

Package: cluster-3.0.12.1-59

The keepalived package has been included as a Technology Preview, starting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4. The keepalived package provides simple and robust facilities for load-balancing and high-availability. The load-balancing framework relies on the well-know and widely used Linux Virtual Server kernel module providing Layer4 network load-balancing. The keepalived daemon implements a set of health checkers to load-balanced server pools according to their state. The keepalived daemon also implements the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), allowing router or director failover to achieve high availability.

Package: keepalived-1.2.7-3

HAProxy is a stand-alone, layer-7, high-performance network load balancer for TCP and HTTP-based applications which can perform various types of scheduling based on the content of the HTTP requests. The haproxy package is included as a Technology Preview, starting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4.

Package: haproxy-1.4.24-2