zimbra failover with shared storage and same ip address

[twilighthaevhen]

Hi,

I really need to know how to do this. thanks for those who will help.

1. I should have 2 zimbra opensource servers.
2. Another server will be used for the shared storage.
3. The 2 zimbra servers should have the same ip address.
4. if I shut down zimbra 1, I'll have to manually start zimbra 2 and it should be properly working just like the zimbra 1 since there is a shared storage and they are of the same ip address.

thanks!!!

[Jesster]

Originally Posted by twilighthaevhen

Hi,

I really need to know how to do this. thanks for those who will help.

1. I should have 2 zimbra opensource servers.
2. Another server will be used for the shared storage.
3. The 2 zimbra servers should have the same ip address.
4. if I shut down zimbra 1, I'll have to manually start zimbra 2 and it should be properly working just like the zimbra 1 since there is a shared storage and they are of the same ip address.

thanks!!!

We did this with our mailstore servers and a SAN for the hardware.
For the software, we used Heartbeat from HomePage: Linux HA. Heartbeat controls "resources".
In our case, it's managing the IPs, Zimbra mountpoints, and Zimbra services.

We went a little further and used the linux bond networking driver to setup active/failover ethernet connectivity from two different NICs (different chipsets/drivers) connected to two different Layer3 switches. There's also a separate management network that Heartbeat uses for communicating with the other nodes.

Hope this helps

-Jessie