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Applies to SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP4

E Documentation Updates

This chapter lists content changes for this document.

This manual was updated on the following dates:

E.1 2020 (Documentation Maintenance Update for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP4)

Bugfixes

Add Procedure 24.3, “Performing a Cluster-wide Fresh Installation of a New Service Pack” for customers who prefer a fresh installation even for moving to the next service pack (Fate #325878).

E.2 2019 (Documentation Maintenance Update for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP4)

Bugfixes

E.3 December 2018 (Initial Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP4)

Bugfixes

E.4 October 2018 (Maintenance Update of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP3)

E.5 July 2018 (Maintenance Update of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP3)

General Changes to this Guide
Bugfixes

E.6 September 2017 (Initial Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP3)

General Changes to this Guide

Configuration changes for corosync (that cannot gracefully be reloaded with corosync-cfgtool -R), and any configuration changes to sbd require restart of the corosync service for the changes to take effect. Restarting the pacemaker service is not enough in those cases.

However, for any changes to /etc/sysconfig/pacemaker, restarting the pacemaker service is sufficient (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050371, https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1052088).

Chapter 6, Configuring and Managing Cluster Resources with Hawk2

Updated the chapter (including all screenshots) to reflect the software changes in Hawk2. The main changes have taken place in the Dashboard view, described in Section 6.8, “Monitoring Clusters”.

Chapter 11, Access Control Lists

Described how to enable the use of ACLs with Hawk2 in Section 11.2, “Enabling Use of ACLs in Your Cluster”. Added Section 11.4, “Configuring ACLs with Hawk2”.

Bugfixes

E.7 April 2017 (Maintenance Update of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP2)

General Changes

Added a new guide, Pacemaker Remote, available at https://www.suse.com/documentation/sle-ha-12. It explains the setup of a cluster with virtual guest nodes or remote nodes, managed by pacemaker_remote. Remote in this context does not mean physical distance, but non-membership of a cluster.

E.8 March 2017 (Maintenance Update of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP2)

General Changes to this Guide

Prefer ocf:heartbeat:clvm over ocf:lvm2:clvmd/ocf:lvm2:cmirrord (http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1030841).

Bugfixes

E.9 November 2016 (Maintenance Update of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP2)

Bugfixes

E.10 November 2016 (Initial Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP2)

General Changes to this Guide
  • Numerous small fixes and additions to the documentation, based on technical feedback.

  • The former chapter Installation and Basic Setup has been restructured:

  • The chapter Configuring and Managing Cluster Resources (Web Interface) (Hawk version 1) has been removed from the documentation. Hawk2 is documented in Chapter 6, Configuring and Managing Cluster Resources with Hawk2.

  • The parameter no-quorum-policy=ignore has been replaced with no-quorum-policy=stop as the first one is no longer recommended (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981650).

  • Updated STONITH resource configurations that contained a monitoring operation with start-delay. To prevent double fencing in 2-node clusters, use the parameter pcmk_delay_max instead (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990213).

  • The e-mail address for documentation feedback has changed to doc-team@suse.com.

Chapter 1, Product Overview

Mentioned that 32-node limit can be extended by using pacemaker_remote (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981590).

Chapter 2, System Requirements and Recommendations

Clarified node count recommendation (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981646).

Chapter 3, Installing the High Availability Extension

New chapter. See also General Changes to this Guide.

Chapter 4, Using the YaST Cluster Module
  • Completely revised. See also General Changes to this Guide.

  • All screenshots have been updated.

Chapter 24, Upgrading Your Cluster and Updating Software Packages
  • Added entries for upgrading to SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP2.

  • Mentioned that Hawk2 shows a warning if the upgrade is incomplete (Fate#320759).

Chapter 7, Configuring and Managing Cluster Resources (Command Line)
Chapter 6, Configuring and Managing Cluster Resources with Hawk2
Chapter 18, DRBD
Chapter 20, Cluster Multi-device (Cluster MD)

New chapter.

Chapter 10, Storage Protection and SBD
Chapter 21, Samba Clustering

Fixed typo in package name tdb-tools (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981512), directory and resource names (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981889).

Chapter 22, Disaster Recovery with Relax-and-Recover (ReaR)
  • Added note about known incompatibilities.

  • Added information on support for UEFI systems (Fate#319332).

Appendix A, Troubleshooting
Appendix D, Running Cluster Reports Without root Access
Bugfixes

E.11 December 2015 (Maintenance Update of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP1)

General

E.12 December 2015 (Initial Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP1)

General
  • Updated some links to external documentation sources (doc comment #26851).

  • Updated the screenshots.

  • Add-ons provided by SUSE have been renamed to modules and extensions. The manuals have been updated to reflect this change.

  • crm_report and hb_report have been replaced with crm report (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950483). Adjusted the manuals accordingly (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=938427.

  • Numerous small fixes and additions to the manual based on technical feedback.

Chapter 2, System Requirements and Recommendations
  • Rephrased sentence about STONITH devices to include not only physical devices but also STONITH mechanism like watchdog (doc comment #27070).

Installation and Basic Setup
  • The example setup files for multicast and unicast setup have moved to /usr/share/doc/packages/corosync (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=938305).

  • The procedure Automatically Setting Up the First Node mentions that ha-cluster-init lets you also configure a virtual IP address for Hawk (Fate#318549).

Chapter 24, Upgrading Your Cluster and Updating Software Packages
Chapter 5, Configuration and Administration Basics
Chapter 7, Configuring and Managing Cluster Resources (Command Line)
Chapter 9, Fencing and STONITH
Chapter 11, Access Control Lists
  • Added Configuring ACLs with Hawk2.

  • Updated chapter according to the new ACL features that become available after upgrading the CIB validation version. For details, see Note: Upgrading the CIB Syntax Version.

    If you have upgraded from a former SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension version and kept your former CIB version, refer to the Access Control List chapter in the Administration Guide for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP3. It is available from http://www.suse.com/documentation/.

Chapter 13, Load Balancing
Chapter 16, OCFS2
Chapter 18, DRBD
Chapter 19, Cluster Logical Volume Manager (cLVM)
Chapter 10, Storage Protection and SBD
Chapter 21, Samba Clustering
Chapter 22, Disaster Recovery with Relax-and-Recover (ReaR)

Completely revised and updated the chapter.

Appendix A, Troubleshooting
Appendix D, Running Cluster Reports Without root Access
  • New appendix (Fate#314907).

Bugfixes

E.13 October 2014 (Initial Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12)

General
  • Adjusted section Automatic Cluster Setup (ha-cluster-bootstrap) because of the renaming of the bootstrap scripts sleha-init, sleha-join, and sleha-remove to ha-cluster-init, ha-cluster-join, and ha-cluster-remove, respectively. Also the location of the log file has changed from /var/log/sleha-bootstrap.log to /var/log/ha-cluster-bootstrap.log (http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853772).

  • Replaced any occurrence of chkconfig and rc* commands with systemd equivalents (http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853533).

  • Introduced a consistent naming scheme for cluster names, node names, cluster resources, and constraints and applied it to the documentation. See Appendix B, Naming Conventions. (Fate#314938).

  • Removed Pacemaker GUI and any references pointing to it (Fate#312948, https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853508).

  • Replaced OpenAIS with Corosync (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853507, https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853556).

  • Removed all occurrences of the following parameters as they are obsolete: default-resource-stickiness, is-managed-default, and default-action-timeout.

  • Removed any occurrences of o2cb resources as the respective resource agent is now obsolete.

  • Improved the consistency of crm shell examples.

  • Adjusted changed package names throughout the whole manual (Fate#314807).

  • Removed list of resource agents from the appendix.

  • Moved documentation for Geo Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension into a separate document (Fate#316121). See the new Geo Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension Geo Clustering Quick Start, available from http://www.suse.com/documentation/.

  • Removed Example of Setting Up a Simple Testing Resource from the appendix as this can be done now by the Hawk wizard.

  • Changed terminology for master-slave resources, which are now called multi-state resources in the upstream documentation.

  • Updated the screenshots.

  • Mentioned both hb_report and crm_report as command line tools for creating detailed cluster reports.

  • Numerous small fixes and additions to the manual based on technical feedback.

Chapter 1, Product Overview
  • Changed terminology from multi-site clusters to geographically dispersed (or Geo) clusters for consistency reasons.

  • Added section about availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension and Geo Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension as extensions: Section 1.1, “Availability as Extension”.

Chapter 2, System Requirements and Recommendations
  • Restructured contents.

  • Mentioned how to create a cluster report when using a non-standard SSH port (Fate#314906). See SSH.

Installation and Basic Setup
Chapter 24, Upgrading Your Cluster and Updating Software Packages
Chapter 5, Configuration and Administration Basics
Chapter 7, Configuring and Managing Cluster Resources (Command Line)
Chapter 11, Access Control Lists
  • Restructured chapter.

  • Added Configuring ACLs with Hawk2.

Chapter 13, Load Balancing
Chapter 16, OCFS2
Chapter 17, GFS2
  • New chapter.

Chapter 18, DRBD
Chapter 19, Cluster Logical Volume Manager (cLVM)
Chapter 10, Storage Protection and SBD
Chapter 21, Samba Clustering
Chapter 22, Disaster Recovery with Relax-and-Recover (ReaR)
Appendix A, Troubleshooting
HA OCF Agents

This chapter has been removed. The latest information about the OCF resource agents can be viewed in the installed system as described in Section 7.1.3, “Displaying Information about OCF Resource Agents”.

Appendix B, Naming Conventions
  • New appendix explaining naming scheme.