What is a failoverdomain and how do I configure one in a RHEL High Availability cluster with rgmanager?

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Issue

  • What is a failover domain in Red Hat Cluster Suite?
  • How can failover domains be use to fine-tune service behavior in a cluster?
  • Want a service to prefer to run on a specific node.
  • How to keep a service on a less preferred node when the preferred node rejoins the cluster.
  • How to define placement strategy in Redhat Cluster Suite
  • Need help preventing cluster services from moving to another node
  • Explain Restricted, Ordered and Nofailback parameter of Failover Domain
  • How to bind service group to specific nodes

Environment

  • Red Hat Cluster Suite 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4
  • RHEL 5 or 6 with the High Availability Add On
  • rgmanager

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