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D.1. Choosing a Cluster Stack

Ultimately the choice of cluster stack is a personal decision that must be made in the context of you or your company's needs and strategic direction. Pacemaker currently functions equally well with both stacks.
Here are some factors that may influence the decision
  • SUSE/Novell, Red Hat and Oracle are all putting their collective weight behind the OpenAIS cluster stack.
  • OpenAIS is an OSI Certified implementation of an industry standard (the Service Availability Forum Application Interface Specification).
  • Using OpenAIS gives your applications access to the following additional cluster services
    • checkpoint service
    • distributed locking service
    • extended virtual synchrony service
    • cluster closed process group service
  • It is likely that Pacemaker, at some point in the future, will make use of some of these additional services not provided by Heartbeat
  • To date, Pacemaker has received less real-world testing on OpenAIS than it has on Heartbeat.