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= Create an Active/Passive Cluster =
== Add a Resource ==
Our first resource will be a unique IP address that the cluster can bring up on
either node. Regardless of where any cluster service(s) are running, end
users need a consistent address to contact them on. Here, I will choose
192.168.122.120 as the floating address, give it the imaginative name ClusterIP
and tell the cluster to check whether it is running every 30 seconds.
[WARNING]
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The chosen address must not already be in use on the network.
Do not reuse an IP address one of the nodes already has configured.
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[root@pcmk-1 ~]# pcs resource create ClusterIP ocf:heartbeat:IPaddr2 \
ip=192.168.122.120 cidr_netmask=24 op monitor interval=30s
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Another important piece of information here is *ocf:heartbeat:IPaddr2*.
This tells Pacemaker three things about the resource you want to add:
* The first field (*ocf* in this case) is the standard to which the resource
script conforms and where to find it.
* The second field (*heartbeat* in this case) is standard-specific; for OCF
resources, it tells the cluster which OCF namespace the resource script is in.
* The third field (*IPaddr2* in this case) is the name of the resource script.
To obtain a list of the available resource standards (the *ocf* part of
*ocf:heartbeat:IPaddr2*), run:
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[root@pcmk-1 ~]# pcs resource standards
lsb
ocf
service
systemd
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To obtain a list of the available OCF resource providers (the *heartbeat*
part of *ocf:heartbeat:IPaddr2*), run:
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[root@pcmk-1 ~]# pcs resource providers
heartbeat
openstack
pacemaker
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Finally, if you want to see all the resource agents available for
a specific OCF provider (the *IPaddr2* part of *ocf:heartbeat:IPaddr2*), run:
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[root@pcmk-1 ~]# pcs resource agents ocf:heartbeat
apache
aws-vpc-move-ip
awseip
awsvip
azure-lb
clvm
.
. (skipping lots of resources to save space)
.
symlink
tomcat
VirtualDomain
Xinetd
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Now, verify that the IP resource has been added, and display the cluster's
status to see that it is now active:
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[root@pcmk-1 ~]# pcs status
Cluster name: mycluster
Stack: corosync
Current DC: pcmk-2 (version 1.1.18-11.el7_5.3-2b07d5c5a9) - partition with quorum
Last updated: Mon Sep 10 16:55:26 2018
Last change: Mon Sep 10 16:53:42 2018 by root via cibadmin on pcmk-1
2 nodes configured
1 resource configured
Online: [ pcmk-1 pcmk-2 ]
Full list of resources:
ClusterIP (ocf::heartbeat:IPaddr2): Started pcmk-1
Daemon Status:
corosync: active/disabled
pacemaker: active/disabled
pcsd: active/enabled
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== Perform a Failover ==
Since our ultimate goal is high availability, we should test failover of
our new resource before moving on.
First, find the node on which the IP address is running.
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[root@pcmk-1 ~]# pcs status
Cluster name: mycluster
Stack: corosync
Current DC: pcmk-2 (version 1.1.18-11.el7_5.3-2b07d5c5a9) - partition with quorum
Last updated: Mon Sep 10 16:55:26 2018
Last change: Mon Sep 10 16:53:42 2018 by root via cibadmin on pcmk-1
2 nodes configured
1 resource configured
Online: [ pcmk-1 pcmk-2 ]
Full list of resources:
ClusterIP (ocf::heartbeat:IPaddr2): Started pcmk-1
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You can see that the status of the *ClusterIP* resource
is *Started* on a particular node (in this example, *pcmk-1*).
Shut down Pacemaker and Corosync on that machine to trigger a failover.
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[root@pcmk-1 ~]# pcs cluster stop pcmk-1
Stopping Cluster (pacemaker)...
Stopping Cluster (corosync)...
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[NOTE]
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A cluster command such as +pcs cluster stop pass:[<replaceable>nodename</replaceable>]+ can be run
from any node in the cluster, not just the affected node.
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Verify that pacemaker and corosync are no longer running:
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[root@pcmk-1 ~]# pcs status
Error: cluster is not currently running on this node
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Go to the other node, and check the cluster status.
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[root@pcmk-2 ~]# pcs status
Cluster name: mycluster
Stack: corosync
Current DC: pcmk-2 (version 1.1.18-11.el7_5.3-2b07d5c5a9) - partition with quorum
Last updated: Mon Sep 10 16:57:22 2018
Last change: Mon Sep 10 16:53:42 2018 by root via cibadmin on pcmk-1
2 nodes configured
1 resource configured
Online: [ pcmk-2 ]
OFFLINE: [ pcmk-1 ]
Full list of resources:
ClusterIP (ocf::heartbeat:IPaddr2): Started pcmk-2
Daemon Status:
corosync: active/disabled
pacemaker: active/disabled
pcsd: active/enabled
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Notice that *pcmk-1* is *OFFLINE* for cluster purposes (its *pcsd* is still
active, allowing it to receive `pcs` commands, but it is not participating in
the cluster).
Also notice that *ClusterIP* is now running on *pcmk-2* -- failover happened
automatically, and no errors are reported.
[IMPORTANT]
.Quorum
====
If a cluster splits into two (or more) groups of nodes that can no longer
communicate with each other (aka. _partitions_), _quorum_ is used to prevent
resources from starting on more nodes than desired, which would risk
data corruption.
A cluster has quorum when more than half of all known nodes are online in
the same partition, or for the mathematically inclined, whenever the following
equation is true:
....
total_nodes < 2 * active_nodes
....
For example, if a 5-node cluster split into 3- and 2-node paritions,
the 3-node partition would have quorum and could continue serving resources.
If a 6-node cluster split into two 3-node partitions, neither partition
would have quorum; pacemaker's default behavior in such cases is to
stop all resources, in order to prevent data corruption.
Two-node clusters are a special case. By the above definition,
a two-node cluster would only have quorum when both nodes are
running. This would make the creation of a two-node cluster pointless,
but corosync has the ability to treat two-node clusters as if only one node
is required for quorum.
The `pcs cluster setup` command will automatically configure *two_node: 1*
in +corosync.conf+, so a two-node cluster will "just work".
If you are using a different cluster shell, you will have to configure
+corosync.conf+ appropriately yourself.
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Now, simulate node recovery by restarting the cluster stack on *pcmk-1*, and
check the cluster's status. (It may take a little while before the cluster
gets going on the node, but it eventually will look like the below.)
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[root@pcmk-1 ~]# pcs cluster start pcmk-1
pcmk-1: Starting Cluster...
[root@pcmk-1 ~]# pcs status
Cluster name: mycluster
Stack: corosync
Current DC: pcmk-2 (version 1.1.18-11.el7_5.3-2b07d5c5a9) - partition with quorum
Last updated: Mon Sep 10 17:00:04 2018
Last change: Mon Sep 10 16:53:42 2018 by root via cibadmin on pcmk-1
2 nodes configured
1 resource configured
Online: [ pcmk-1 pcmk-2 ]
Full list of resources:
ClusterIP (ocf::heartbeat:IPaddr2): Started pcmk-2
Daemon Status:
corosync: active/disabled
pacemaker: active/disabled
pcsd: active/enabled
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== Prevent Resources from Moving after Recovery ==
In most circumstances, it is highly desirable to prevent healthy
resources from being moved around the cluster. Moving resources almost
always requires a period of downtime. For complex services such as
databases, this period can be quite long.
To address this, Pacemaker has the concept of resource _stickiness_,
which controls how strongly a service prefers to stay running where it
is. You may like to think of it as the "cost" of any downtime. By
default, Pacemaker assumes there is zero cost associated with moving
resources and will do so to achieve "optimal"
footnote:[Pacemaker's definition of optimal may not always agree with that of a
human's. The order in which Pacemaker processes lists of resources and nodes
creates implicit preferences in situations where the administrator has not
explicitly specified them.]
resource placement. We can specify a different stickiness for every
resource, but it is often sufficient to change the default.
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[root@pcmk-1 ~]# pcs resource defaults resource-stickiness=100
Warning: Defaults do not apply to resources which override them with their own defined values
[root@pcmk-1 ~]# pcs resource defaults
resource-stickiness: 100
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