May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 6m
English
In the active/passive service configuration, the service is configured and deployed to two or more physical systems. The service is associated with a Virtual IP (VIP) address. A cluster resource manager (normally Pacemaker) is used to ensure that the service and its VIP are enabled on only one of the two systems at any point in time. The resource manager may be configured to favor one of the machines over the other.
When the machine that the service is running on fails, the resource manager first ensures that the failed machine is no longer running and then it starts the service on the second machine. Ensuring that the failed machine is no longer running is accomplished through a process known as fencing ...
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