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Geo Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension

An industry-leading open source high availability system designed to manage cluster servers in data centers anywhere in the world. Geo clustering is included with the latest version of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, and available separately for version 12 and earlier. High availability clustering is used to automate application and data recovery.

In the event of a regional disaster, the power can go down and your mission-critical workloads can fail. This is not acceptable. Geo clustering provides rules-based failover for automatic and manual transfer of a workload to another cluster outside of the affected area. Your mission-critical workloads are transferred away from the affected region to continue to run.

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Key Features

Flexible, policy-driven clustering and continuous data replication—boost flexibility while improving service availability and resource utilization by supporting the mixed clustering of both physical and virtual Linux servers. Protect workloads across globally distributed data centers

Rules-based failover for automatic and manual transfer of a workload to another cluster outside of the affected area. Your mission-critical workloads are transferred away from the affected region to continue to run and protect workloads across globally-distributed data centers against regional disruptive events

Multi-tenancy can be used to manage geo clusters per business needs

Mixed clustering of both physical and virtual Linux servers to boost flexibility while improving service availability and resource utilization

HAProxy is a very fast and reliable solution that offers high availability, load balancing and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications by spreading requests across multiple servers. It complements the Linux virtual server load balancer

Continuous data replication across cluster servers in data centers anywhere in the world and minimize data loss due to corruption or failure by protecting your data assets using your existing IT infrastructure. Achieve maximum protection for workloads that can never have unplanned downtime

Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) is a leading open source networked disk management tool, enabling you to build single partitions from multiple disks that mirror each other and make data highly available. You can also quickly restore your clustered services via its fast data resynchronization capabilities. DRBD mirrors the data from the active node of a high availability cluster to its standby node. DRBD supports both synchronous and asynchronous mirroring. In the event of an outage, DRBD automatically resynchronizes the temporarily unavailable node to the latest version of data, without interfering with the service that is running. Additionally, DRBD includes data compression algorithms that reduce replication times.

For a full list of high availability features, please see the SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension page.

Tech Specs

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Local installation: 512 MB RAM, 512 MB Swap recommended
2 GB available disk space (more recommended, 8.5 GB for all patterns)
16 GB for snapshot/rollback of the OS

Recommendations for specific uses

512 MB to 4 GB RAM, at least 256 MB per CPU
44 GB hard disk space, 16 GB for snapshot/rollback of the OS
Network interface (ethernet, wireless or modem)
Network redundancy
I/O fencing mechanism and possibly shared storage
For Xen virtual host server, at least 512 MB RAM for each virtual host server
For KVM virtual host server, KVM's limits are equal to those of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
For Xen or KVM virtual machines, at least an additional 256 MB RAM for each virtual machine
For print servers, a relatively faster processor or additional processors to improve server-based printing
For web servers, additional RAM to improve caching, and additional processors to improve web application performance
For database servers, additional RAM to improve caching, and using multiple disks for parallel I/O
For file servers, additional memory and disks, or a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) system to improve I/O throughput

Documentation

GEO Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12

GEO Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP4

GEO Clustering for SUSE High Availability Extension

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