[Linux-HA] Disadvantages when configuring Heartbeat V2 like V1

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Feb 13, 2008, at 8:22 AM, David Lang wrote:

> but going back to the initial question.
>
> if you were to compare heartbeat 1.x vs heartbeat 2.x with a V1  
> config, are there any problems that would show up?


if you just want to have a haresources based cluster, then there is  
practically no difference at all between the two versions.

>
>
> the fact that this can't take advantage of other 2.x features is not  
> a useful answer.
>
> as for why someone would want to do this, it's much less risky to  
> upgrade a software package if you don't have to also change the  
> config drasticly at the same time (especially if the config change  
> would require training a significant group of people)
>
> In addition, if a person doesn't need the new features of 2.x, but  
> wants to be running a version that gets patches,

thats a red herring i'm afraid - the v1 resource manager has barely  
been touched at all in the last 2-3 years - so it's very unlikely that  
there are any patches that are relevant to you

> this is a useful option.
>
> David Lang
>
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:23:08 +0100
>> From: Andrew Beekhof <beekhof at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: General Linux-HA mailing list <linux-ha at lists.linux-ha.org>
>> To: General Linux-HA mailing list <linux-ha at lists.linux-ha.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Linux-HA] Disadvantages when configuring Heartbeat V2  
>> like V1
>>
>> On Feb 12, 2008, at 6:17 PM, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
>>
>>> I have a basic 2 node cluster, and just tried the conversion you  
>>> mentioned,
>>> hb_gui has a seg fault when starting up. This doesn't seem to work  
>>> very
>>> well.
>>> I notice you need a graphical interface (xwindows) to use either  
>>> of these
>>> tools.
>>> is there a way to do this WITHOUT the graphics, like a plain  
>>> command-line
>>> version?
>>> hb_gui/hbclient does me no good.
>>
>> Its all in
>> http://www.clusterlabs.org/mw/Image:Configuration_Explained.pdf
>>
>>> Dan.
>>> On Feb 12, 2008 10:48 AM, Miroslav Strugarevic <strugarevic at gmail.com 
>>> >
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Feb 12, 2008 4:07 PM, Schmidt, Florian
>>>> <florian.schmidt at altroconsult.de> wrote:
>>>>> Hi eyeryone,
>>>>> I do have Heartbeat V2 installed and wanted (because I have V2 so
>>>>> configure it with V2-tools) ("crm yes")). But it's much harder to
>>>>> understand the V2-configuration with its cib.xml and all the  
>>>>> concepts.
>>>>> So are there any disadvantages when using the V1-configuration  
>>>>> with a
>>>>> Heartbeat V2?
>>>> Hi,
>>>> you could use this script to convert V1 to V2 style.
>>>> # /usr/lib/heartbeat/haresources2cib.py /etc/ha.d/haresources
>>>> This script will create V2 config file /var/lib/heartbeat/crm/ 
>>>> cib.xml
>>>> (Then you could use hbclient or hb_gui to modified cluster  
>>>> settings).
>>>> Good luck!
>>>>> We only want to make some services high-available (FTP etc.) in a
>>>>> cluster with two nodes and mirror some filesystems to the active  
>>>>> node
>>>>> via DRBD.
>>>>> Tanks for answers :)
>>>>> Flori
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