Heartbeat and Pacemaker

airkemp · 05-01-2015, 07:28 AM

Hi there,

I have to upgrade a system from RHEL 5.11 to 6.6 and am wondering if I need the pacemaker package.

We used to run:
Heatbeat
Heatbeat-pils
Heatbeat-stonith

To manage a 2 node system

Now that pils and stonith are deprecated, I notice the Heatbeat package includes the dependency cluster-glue-libs:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat...86_64.rpm.html

which in turn includes the pils and stonith libraries:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat...86_64.rpm.html

With that in mind, do I need pacemaker?

Many Thanks

nini09 · 05-01-2015, 02:54 PM

If there are 2 nodes only in the system, pacemaker isn't necessary. If you have a plan to add more node into system, pacemaker is solution.