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Dan Radez
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Dan Radez

Dan Radez joined the OpenStack community in 2012 in an operator role. His experience is focused on installing, maintaining, and integrating OpenStack clusters. He has been given the opportunity to internationally present OpenStack content to a range of audiences of varying expertise. In January 2015, Dan joined the OPNFV community and has been working to integrate RDO Manager with SDN controllers and the networking features necessary for NFV. Dan's experience includes web application programming, systems release engineering, and virtualization product development. Most of these roles have had an open source community focus to them. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and three boys, training for and racing triathlons, and tinkering with electronics projects.
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High availability


While HAProxy has monitors built into it to check the health of a host, this is only to know whether or not to send traffic to the host. It does not include any capability of recovering from failure.

To make the control tier highly available, Pacemaker is added to the cluster to monitor services, filesystems, networking resources, and other resources that is it not sufficient to simply load-balance, they need to be made highly available. Pacemaker is capable of moving services from node to node in a pacemaker cluster and monitoring the nodes to know whether action needs to be taken to recover a particular resource or even one of the entire nodes. Triple-O will install and configure a highly available control tier with the previously shown options passed to overcloud deploy in this chapter.

There are two major infrastructure considerations that go into designing a Pacemaker cluster. These points are related to the installation of Pacemaker and preparing it to start managing...

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Dan Radez

Dan Radez joined the OpenStack community in 2012 in an operator role. His experience is focused on installing, maintaining, and integrating OpenStack clusters. He has been given the opportunity to internationally present OpenStack content to a range of audiences of varying expertise. In January 2015, Dan joined the OPNFV community and has been working to integrate RDO Manager with SDN controllers and the networking features necessary for NFV. Dan's experience includes web application programming, systems release engineering, and virtualization product development. Most of these roles have had an open source community focus to them. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and three boys, training for and racing triathlons, and tinkering with electronics projects.
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