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On 4 Feb 2011, at 08:56, Mathias Tauber wrote:

> > In Case its only a solution for failover ZFS Pools.
> > Not for applications, unfortunately.
> 
> So, the services NFS, iSCSI and CIFS based on ZFS pools can be clustered 
> currently, maybe even combined? That's all we need, no applications.
> 
> Maybe someone is successfully running OI_b148 with IHAC or OHAC (or at least 
> tried) and can report here ;)
> 


This was discussed on IRC earlier this week ISTR. 

OHAC as a project is dead. It's a kernel cluster, which means you need a 
specific build each time, and there were some discussions on the OHAC mailing 
list around how there are 2-3 show stopping bugs when building it against 
anything later than OpenSolaris 2009.06. 

IHAC has a long way to go until it's usable.

Sun Cluster, same issues as OHAC - it's a kernel cluster. Additionally, it's 
future is uncertain - Oracle have made the RAC Clusterware available as a 
stand-alone product. Are they really going to continue supporting and 
developing two seperate and competing cluster products, especially with their 
current mindset of "everything supports the DB sales" to generate revenue from 
Sun? I think not.

I've been playing with VCS and it looks promising, might have some stuff to 
report on that in the next few weeks depending on my workload.

Fundamentally you have to look at what you want a cluster to provide. SC, VCS, 
OHAC - they're all HA cluster solutions. If you care about something so much 
you need to build an HA cluster for it, then surely you can afford (and need) 
the support to ensure it's as robust as possible.

If you don't need the HA aspects, then you don't really need any of the above 
products - script something up to take ZFS snapshots and replicate those + 
basic config to a remote node.

OI is fantastic, and I'm using it in production for both myself and some 
clients. It works great as a cluster - but in a grid or HPC solution, where you 
don't need HA. Right tool for the job and all that.

Cheers,
TOM

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