Chapter 4. Creating a Red Hat High-Availability cluster with Pacemaker Create a Red Hat High Availability two-node cluster using the pcs command-line interface with the following procedure. Configuring the cluster in this example requires that your system include the following components: 2 nodes, which will be used to create the cluster. In this example, the nodes used are z1.example.com and z2.example.com . Network switches for the private network. We recommend but do not require a private network for communication among the cluster nodes and other cluster hardware such as network power switches and Fibre Channel switches. A fencing device for each node of the cluster. This example uses two ports of the APC power switch with a host name of zapc.example.com . Note You must ensure that your configuration conforms to Red Hat's support policies. For full information about Red Hat's support policies, requirements, and limitations for RHEL High Availability clusters, see Support Policies for RHEL High Availability Clusters . 4.1. Installing cluster software Install the cluster software and configure your system for cluster creation with the following procedure. Procedure On each node in the cluster, enable the repository for high availability that corresponds to your system architecture. For example, to enable the high availability repository for an x86_64 system, you can enter the following subscription-manager command: On each node in the cluster, install the Red Hat High Availability Add-On software packages along with all available fence agents from the High Availability channel. Alternatively, you can install the Red Hat High Availability Add-On software packages along with only the fence agent that you require with the following command. The following command displays a list of the available fence agents. Warning After you install the Red Hat High Availability Add-On packages, you should ensure that your software update preferences are set so that nothing is installed automatically. Installation on a running cluster can cause unexpected behaviors. For more information, see Recommended Practices for Applying Software Updates to a RHEL High Availability or Resilient Storage Cluster . If you are running the firewalld daemon, execute the following commands to enable the ports that are required by the Red Hat High Availability Add-On. Note You can determine whether the firewalld daemon is installed on your system with the rpm -q firewalld command. If it is installed, you can determine whether it is running with the firewall-cmd --state command. Note The ideal firewall configuration for cluster components depends on the local environment, where you may need to take into account such considerations as whether the nodes have multiple network interfaces or whether off-host firewalling is present. The example here, which opens the ports that are generally required by a Pacemaker cluster, should be modified to suit local conditions. Enabling ports for the High Availability Add-On shows the ports to enable for the Red Hat High Availability Add-On and provides an explanation for what each port is used for. In order to use pcs to configure the cluster and communicate among the nodes, you must set a password on each node for the user ID hacluster , which is the pcs administration account. It is recommended that the password for user hacluster be the same on each node. Before the cluster can be configured, the pcsd daemon must be started and enabled to start up on boot on each node. This daemon works with the pcs command to manage configuration across the nodes in the cluster. On each node in the cluster, execute the following commands to start the pcsd service and to enable pcsd at system start. 4.2. Installing the pcp-zeroconf package (recommended) When you set up your cluster, it is recommended that you install the pcp-zeroconf package for the Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) tool. PCP is Red Hat's recommended resource-monitoring tool for RHEL systems. Installing the pcp-zeroconf package allows you to have PCP running and collecting performance-monitoring data for the benefit of investigations into fencing, resource failures, and other events that disrupt the cluster. Note Cluster deployments where PCP is enabled will need sufficient space available for PCP's captured data on the file system that contains /var/log/pcp/ . Typical space usage by PCP varies across deployments, but 10Gb is usually sufficient when using the pcp-zeroconf default settings, and some environments may require less. Monitoring usage in this directory over a 14-day period of typical activity can provide a more accurate usage expectation. Procedure To install the pcp-zeroconf package, run the following command. This package enables pmcd and sets up data capture at a 10-second interval. For information about reviewing PCP data, see the Red Hat Knowledgebase solution Why did a RHEL High Availability cluster node reboot - and how can I prevent it from happening again? . 4.3. Creating a high availability cluster Create a Red Hat High Availability Add-On cluster with the following procedure. This example procedure creates a cluster that consists of the nodes z1.example.com and z2.example.com . Procedure Authenticate the pcs user hacluster for each node in the cluster on the node from which you will be running pcs . The following command authenticates user hacluster on z1.example.com for both of the nodes in a two-node cluster that will consist of z1.example.com and z2.example.com . Execute the following command from z1.example.com to create the two-node cluster my_cluster that consists of nodes z1.example.com and z2.example.com . This will propagate the cluster configuration files to both nodes in the cluster. This command includes the --start option, which will start the cluster services on both nodes in the cluster. Enable the cluster services to run on each node in the cluster when the node is booted. Note For your particular environment, you may choose to leave the cluster services disabled by skipping this step. This allows you to ensure that if a node goes down, any issues with your cluster or your resources are resolved before the node rejoins the cluster. If you leave the cluster services disabled, you will need to manually start the services when you reboot a node by executing the pcs cluster start command on that node. You can display the current status of the cluster with the pcs cluster status command. Because there may be a slight delay before the cluster is up and running when you start the cluster services with the --start option of the pcs cluster setup command, you should ensure that the cluster is up and running before performing any subsequent actions on the cluster and its configuration. 4.4. Creating a high availability cluster with multiple links You can use the pcs cluster setup command to create a Red Hat High Availability cluster with multiple links by specifying all of the links for each node. The format for the basic command to create a two-node cluster with two links is as follows. For the full syntax of this command, see the pcs (8) man page. When creating a cluster with multiple links, you should take the following into account. The order of the addr= address parameters is important. The first address specified after a node name is for link0 , the second one for link1 , and so forth. By default, if link_priority is not specified for a link, the link's priority is equal to the link number. The link priorities are then 0, 1, 2, 3, and so forth, according to the order specified, with 0 being the highest link priority. The default link mode is passive , meaning the active link with the lowest-numbered link priority is used. With the default values of link_mode and link_priority , the first link specified will be used as the highest priority link, and if that link fails the link specified will be used. It is possible to specify up to eight links using the knet transport protocol, which is the default transport protocol. All nodes must have the same number of addr= parameters. It is possible to add, remove, and change links in an existing cluster using the pcs cluster link add , the pcs cluster link remove , the pcs cluster link delete , and the pcs cluster link update commands. As with single-link clusters, do not mix IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in one link, although you can have one link running IPv4 and the other running IPv6. As with single-link clusters, you can specify addresses as IP addresses or as names as long as the names resolve to IPv4 or IPv6 addresses for which IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are not mixed in one link. The following example creates a two-node cluster named my_twolink_cluster with two nodes, rh80-node1 and rh80-node2 . rh80-node1 has two interfaces, IP address 192.168.122.201 as link0 and 192.168.123.201 as link1 . rh80-node2 has two interfaces, IP address 192.168.122.202 as link0 and 192.168.123.202 as link1 . To set a link priority to a different value than the default value, which is the link number, you can set the link priority with the link_priority option of the pcs cluster setup command. Each of the following two example commands creates a two-node cluster with two interfaces where the first link, link 0, has a link priority of 1 and the second link, link 1, has a link priority of 0. Link 1 will be used first and link 0 will serve as the failover link. Since link mode is not specified, it defaults to passive. These two commands are equivalent. If you do not specify a link number following the link keyword, the pcs interface automatically adds a link number, starting with the lowest unused link number. You can set the link mode to a different value than the default value of passive with the link_mode option of the pcs cluster setup command, as in the following example. The following example sets both the link mode and the link priority. For information about adding nodes to an existing cluster with multiple links, see Adding a node to a cluster with multiple links . For information about changing the links in an existing cluster with multiple links, see Adding and modifying links in an existing cluster . 4.5. Configuring fencing You must configure a fencing device for each node in the cluster. For information about the fence configuration commands and options, see Configuring fencing in a Red Hat High Availability cluster . For general information about fencing and its importance in a Red Hat High Availability cluster, see the Red Hat Knowledgebase solution Fencing in a Red Hat High Availability Cluster . Note When configuring a fencing device, attention should be given to whether that device shares power with any nodes or devices in the cluster. If a node and its fence device do share power, then the cluster may be at risk of being unable to fence that node if the power to it and its fence device should be lost. Such a cluster should either have redundant power supplies for fence devices and nodes, or redundant fence devices that do not share power. Alternative methods of fencing such as SBD or storage fencing may also bring redundancy in the event of isolated power losses. Procedure This example uses the APC power switch with a host name of zapc.example.com to fence the nodes, and it uses the fence_apc_snmp fencing agent. Because both nodes will be fenced by the same fencing agent, you can configure both fencing devices as a single resource, using the pcmk_host_map option. You create a fencing device by configuring the device as a stonith resource with the pcs stonith create command. The following command configures a stonith resource named myapc that uses the fence_apc_snmp fencing agent for nodes z1.example.com and z2.example.com . The pcmk_host_map option maps z1.example.com to port 1, and z2.example.com to port 2. The login value and password for the APC device are both apc . By default, this device will use a monitor interval of sixty seconds for each node. Note that you can use an IP address when specifying the host name for the nodes. The following command displays the parameters of an existing fencing device. After configuring your fence device, you should test the device. For information about testing a fence device, see Testing a fence device . Note Do not test your fence device by disabling the network interface, as this will not properly test fencing. Note Once fencing is configured and a cluster has been started, a network restart will trigger fencing for the node which restarts the network even when the timeout is not exceeded. For this reason, do not restart the network service while the cluster service is running because it will trigger unintentional fencing on the node. 4.6. Backing up and restoring a cluster configuration The following commands back up a cluster configuration in a tar archive and restore the cluster configuration files on all nodes from the backup. Procedure Use the following command to back up the cluster configuration in a tar archive. If you do not specify a file name, the standard output will be used. Note The pcs config backup command backs up only the cluster configuration itself as configured in the CIB; the configuration of resource daemons is out of the scope of this command. For example if you have configured an Apache resource in the cluster, the resource settings (which are in the CIB) will be backed up, while the Apache daemon settings (as set in`/etc/httpd`) and the files it serves will not be backed up. Similarly, if there is a database resource configured in the cluster, the database itself will not be backed up, while the database resource configuration (CIB) will be. Use the following command to restore the cluster configuration files on all cluster nodes from the backup. Specifying the --local option restores the cluster configuration files only on the node from which you run this command. If you do not specify a file name, the standard input will be used. 4.7. Enabling ports for the High Availability Add-On The ideal firewall configuration for cluster components depends on the local environment, where you may need to take into account such considerations as whether the nodes have multiple network interfaces or whether off-host firewalling is present. If you are running the firewalld daemon, execute the following commands to enable the ports that are required by the Red Hat High Availability Add-On. You may need to modify which ports are open to suit local conditions. Note You can determine whether the firewalld daemon is installed on your system with the rpm -q firewalld command. If the firewalld daemon is installed, you can determine whether it is running with the firewall-cmd --state command. The following table shows the ports to enable for the Red Hat High Availability Add-On and provides an explanation for what the port is used for. Table 4.1. Ports to Enable for High Availability Add-On Port When Required TCP 2224 Default pcsd port required on all nodes (needed by the pcsd Web UI and required for node-to-node communication). You can configure the pcsd port by means of the PCSD_PORT parameter in the /etc/sysconfig/pcsd file. It is crucial to open port 2224 in such a way that pcs from any node can talk to all nodes in the cluster, including itself. When using the Booth cluster ticket manager or a quorum device you must open port 2224 on all related hosts, such as Booth arbitrators or the quorum device host. TCP 3121 Required on all nodes if the cluster has any Pacemaker Remote nodes Pacemaker's pacemaker-based daemon on the full cluster nodes will contact the pacemaker_remoted daemon on Pacemaker Remote nodes at port 3121. If a separate interface is used for cluster communication, the port only needs to be open on that interface. At a minimum, the port should open on Pacemaker Remote nodes to full cluster nodes. Because users may convert a host between a full node and a remote node, or run a remote node inside a container using the host's network, it can be useful to open the port to all nodes. It is not necessary to open the port to any hosts other than nodes. TCP 5403 Required on the quorum device host when using a quorum device with corosync-qnetd . The default value can be changed with the -p option of the corosync-qnetd command. UDP 5404-5412 Required on corosync nodes to facilitate communication between nodes. It is crucial to open ports 5404-5412 in such a way that corosync from any node can talk to all nodes in the cluster, including itself. TCP 21064 Required on all nodes if the cluster contains any resources requiring DLM (such as GFS2 ). TCP 9929, UDP 9929 Required to be open on all cluster nodes and Booth arbitrator nodes to connections from any of those same nodes when the Booth ticket manager is used to establish a multi-site cluster.

Commands:
subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-9-for-x86_64-highavailability-rpms
dnf install pcs pacemaker fence-agents-all
dnf install pcs pacemaker fence-agents- model
rpm -q -a | grep fence fence-agents-rhevm-4.0.2-3.el7.x86_64 fence-agents-ilo-mp-4.0.2-3.el7.x86_64 fence-agents-ipmilan-4.0.2-3.el7.x86_64
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=high-availability firewall-cmd --add-service=high-availability
passwd hacluster Changing password for user hacluster. New password: Retype new password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
systemctl start pcsd.service systemctl enable pcsd.service
dnf install pcp-zeroconf
pcs host auth z1.example.com z2.example.com Username: hacluster Password: z1.example.com: Authorized z2.example.com: Authorized
pcs cluster setup my_cluster --start z1.example.com z2.example.com
pcs cluster enable --all
pcs cluster status Cluster Status: Stack: corosync Current DC: z2.example.com (version 2.0.0-10.el8-b67d8d0de9) - partition with quorum Last updated: Thu Oct 11 16:11:18 2018 Last change: Thu Oct 11 16:11:00 2018 by hacluster via crmd on z2.example.com 2 Nodes configured 0 Resources configured
pcs cluster setup pass:quotes[ cluster_name ] pass:quotes[ node1_name ] addr=pass:quotes[ node1_link0_address ] addr=pass:quotes[ node1_link1_address ] pass:quotes[ node2_name ] addr=pass:quotes[ node2_link0_address ] addr=pass:quotes[ node2_link1_address ]
pcs cluster setup my_twolink_cluster rh80-node1 addr=192.168.122.201 addr=192.168.123.201 rh80-node2 addr=192.168.122.202 addr=192.168.123.202
pcs cluster setup my_twolink_cluster rh80-node1 addr=192.168.122.201 addr=192.168.123.201 rh80-node2 addr=192.168.122.202 addr=192.168.123.202 transport knet link link_priority=1 link link_priority=0 pcs cluster setup my_twolink_cluster rh80-node1 addr=192.168.122.201 addr=192.168.123.201 rh80-node2 addr=192.168.122.202 addr=192.168.123.202 transport knet link linknumber=1 link_priority=0 link link_priority=1
pcs cluster setup my_twolink_cluster rh80-node1 addr=192.168.122.201 addr=192.168.123.201 rh80-node2 addr=192.168.122.202 addr=192.168.123.202 transport knet link_mode=active
pcs cluster setup my_twolink_cluster rh80-node1 addr=192.168.122.201 addr=192.168.123.201 rh80-node2 addr=192.168.122.202 addr=192.168.123.202 transport knet link_mode=active link link_priority=1 link link_priority=0
pcs stonith create myapc fence_apc_snmp ipaddr="zapc.example.com" pcmk_host_map="z1.example.com:1;z2.example.com:2" login="apc" passwd="apc"
pcs stonith config myapc Resource: myapc (class=stonith type=fence_apc_snmp) Attributes: ipaddr=zapc.example.com pcmk_host_map=z1.example.com:1;z2.example.com:2 login=apc passwd=apc Operations: monitor interval=60s (myapc-monitor-interval-60s)
pcs config backup filename
pcs config restore [--local] [ filename ]
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=high-availability firewall-cmd --add-service=high-availability