Building High Availability

Clusters with SUSE Linux ®

Enterprise High Availability

Extension 11
Mark Gonnelly Ralph Dehner
Data Center Consultant CEO
Novell, Inc B1 Systems
[email protected] [email protected]
 Agenda

Introduction to the High Availability Extension

Installation

Components

What's New In SP1

Demo

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 Introduction to the
High Availability Extension
 Data Center Challenges

Minimize unplanned downtime

Ensure quality of service

Contain costs

Utilize resources

Effectively manage multiple vendors

Minimize risk

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 SUSE Linux Enterprise ®

High Availability Extension

• Integrated suite of open source technologies

– Affordable

– Integrated as extension with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

> Avoids issues with proprietary 3rd party products

– Virtualization-aware

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Benefits

Meet service-level agreements

Continuous access to systems and data

Maintain data integrity

Scale-out infrastructure

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 What Do You Get?

• High Availability clustering solution

– Service availability 24h a day
• Oracle Cluster File System 2 (OCFS2)
– Sharing and Scaling data-access by multiple nodes
• Distributed Remote Block Device 8 (DRBD)
– Provide low-cost “SAN” through disk replication via TCP
• IP Load-balancing (Linux Virtual Server)
– Scale network services using multiple nodes
• User-friendly tools
• Documentation and whitepapers

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 Notable Features

• Up to 16 nodes per cluster generally supported .

– Specific support cases beyond that are possible.
• Local Data Center clusters only.
– But see road map for SP1.
• Shared storage supported, but not required.
– MPIO fully supported.
• Available on all architectures for SUSE Linux
®

Enterprise Server.

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 Virtualization-aware

• Xen-aware cluster resource manager extends

high availability to virtual workloads
• Recognize, monitor and manage services running
within virtual servers, as well as services running
in physical servers
• Guest systems can be managed as services by
the cluster
• Cluster virtual servers with physical servers for
higher availability and higher utilization

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Installation
 Media

Available as an ISO image than can be used as is,

burned to a single CD, or integrated into a network
installation source.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server can access multiple

®

install sources in addition to the standard media.

This means that the High Availability Extension can be

integrated into the initial install of a new server whether it
is done manually or automated with AutoYaST.

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 The High Availability Pattern

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 OpenAIS

• Open Source Initiative's certified implementation

of the Service Availability Forum Application
Interface Specification

• Leading standards-based communication

protocol for server and storage clustering

• Messaging and membership layer

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 Details

• The underlying protocol is called Totem

• Multicast only

• Uses one mcast group only in SUSE Linux®

Enterprise Server 11

• Multiple multicast groups on the way for SP1

• Push redundancy down the stack – NIC bonding

• Config file is /etc/ais/openais.conf

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 Configuring OpenAIS

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 A Simple Cluster

Totem mcast

Node 1 Node 3

Node 2

SAN

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Features
Cluster aware file system and volume manager
– OCFS2

> Shared-disk POSIX-compliant generic cluster file system

> Cluster-aware POSIX locking

> Parallel I/O

– cLVM2 (Clustered Logical Volume Manager)

> Convenient, single, cluster-wide view of storage

> Clustering extensions to the standard LVM2 toolset

> Eliminates need to learn a new set of tools

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Features (continued)
User-friendly tools
– Unified command line interface
> Powerful tool for installing, configuring and managing Linux clusters
> For more experienced IT professionals

– Graphical user interface

> Simple tool for monitoring and administering clustered environment
> Does not require in-depth knowledge

– YaST modules
> DRBD
> OpenAIS
> Multipath

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Features (continued)
Resource Agents
– For popular third-party applications included at no extra charge
> SAP Instance and Database, IBM WebSphere Application Server, DB2,
and Informix, Oracle and VMware

– For popular open source applications included at no

extra charge
> Apache, Ipv4 and IPv6, LVM, RAID, Pure-FTPd, Route, ServeRAID, Squid,
VIPArip, Xen, Xinted, DRBD, Novell eDirectory , iscsi, mysql, nfsserver,
®
™

and postgres, sfex, tomcat, filesystems

– For the most up to date list of resource agents, visit

www.novell.com/products/highavailability

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 Fencing

• Isolating resources – usually storage - from nodes

• Two ways of doing this

– Isolating the resource – SAN switch remapping

– Isolating the node – power off or panic

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 STONITH

• Shoot The Other Node In The Head

• We are doing node fencing here

• A daemon run as part of the cluster stack

• Has support for a number of fencing methods

stonith -L

• Displays the list

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 DRBD

Continuous data replication

– DRBD8 (Distributed Replicated Block Device)

> Leading open source networked disk management tool

> Build single partitions from multiple disks that mirror each other

> Fast data resynchronization capabilities

> Supports both synchronous and asynchronous mirroring

> Provides replicated storage area network (SAN) semantics, allowing

cluster-aware file systems to be used without additional SANs

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What's New In SP1
 Key Features in Service Pack 1

Web GUI – Enabling cross platform management

Integrated Samba Clustering – Integration of Samba with

OCFS2 for higher throughput and scale out

Metro-Area Clusters – Supporting clustering between

different data center locations

Enhance Data Replication – DRBD with Linbit

Node Recovery – ReaR for node recovery

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HA Stack from 10 to 11
SLES 10 SLE HA 11 SLE HA 11 SP1
OCFS2 Metro-Area
Heartbeat
general FS Cluster

DRBD 0.7 Unified CLI

Samba
Yast2-HB Pacemaker
Cluster

OCFS2 / EVMS2 openAIS

Enhanced
HA GUI
Data Replication

Yast2-DRBD Node Recovery

Yast2-Multipath Web GUI

Added in Added in
Part of SLES 10
SLE HA 11 SLE HA 11 SP1
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Promotion
Existing customers

– Free of charge subscription

> For all valid SUSE Linux Enterprise Server subscriptions

> Effective date: June 1st 2009

> Valid for subsequent subscription periods if base

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is renewed on time

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 SAP certification status

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 is fully certified for SAP

®

http://www.sap.com/linux/ → supported platforms

This includes also all extensions to SUSE Linux

Enterprise Server 11

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 Status of High Availability stack
@SAP Linux Lab
• SAP Linux Lab (which includes Novell staff) is
®

working on defining the High Availability stack for

SAP on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
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• Goal: reliable and well-tested stack

• Base: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability
Extension 11 replaces the High Availability Storage
Infrastructure from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
• What remains in version 1: MD-RAID, SFEX
• Scheduled for evaluation: cLVM, OCFS2, SDB

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