SLES 9 and clustering

Posted Sep 9, 2004 14:08 UTC (Thu) by marduk (subscriber, #3831)
Parent article: SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9

I have a question regarding clustering in SLES 9 compared to RHAS 3. RHAS 2.x had clustering support built-in including LVS and shared-storage clustering. This is a seperate (US $500?) add-on in RHAS 3. My question is does SLES 9 support clustering, which types, and is it part of the OS or a seperate package?

SLES 9 and clustering

Posted Sep 17, 2004 5:27 UTC (Fri) by botsie (guest, #1485) [Link]

You forget that the cluster addon is now available to ES users too, which actually works out cheaper for the majority of users.

SLES 9 and clustering

Posted Oct 4, 2004 0:01 UTC (Mon) by Don_Alfredo (guest, #25182) [Link]

clustering is supported out-of-the-box , no additional fees;

BTW : note to the author: thanks for the screenshot : i've just installed
7 SLES9 servers but hey... they're servers, i still have to see the first
X-stuff on any of my servers so-far, so now i know what it might look
like ;-)

personal notes on installing :
Professional : i base my choise of OS on the hardware vendors
certification matrices - i never install an OS that isn't supported by
the hardware vendor when i have to warrant a 99,998 uptime on yearly
base. If SLES9 is not supported, or you have no inside info that it will
be soon - check,check,check... e.g. HP DL320 with IDE Raid vs HP DL320
with SCSI Raid

Points still to improve on SLES9 :
- documentation doesn't keep up with latest packages (e.g. there is a lot
of "white space" where it comes to bonding nic's)
- where to get support ? Novell / SuSE ? try it out... you will find your
best answers by Googling, or hardware vendors forums
- Their websites and administrative people (sales) are not yet lined-up,
but i'm confident they will in near future (same goes for support)
- short : it is enterprise-ready, proven (look at Oracle/IBM benchmarks),
but not yet widely spread, which is normal imho, who upgrades its
(stable) servers OS every year, beside M$ believers ?