Product SiteDocumentation Site

1.4. Types of Pacemaker Clusters

Pacemaker makes no assumptions about your environment, this allows it to support practically any redundancy configuration including Active/Active, Active/Passive, N+1, N+M, N-to-1 and N-to-N.
In this document we will focus on the setup of a highly available Apache web server with an Active/Passive cluster using DRBD and Ext4 to store data. Then, we will upgrade this cluster to Active/Active using GFS2.
Two-node Active/Passive clusters using Pacemaker and DRBD are a cost-effective solution for many High Availability situations
Figure 1.4. Active/Passive Redundancy

When shared storage is available, every node can potentially be used for failover. Pacemaker can even run multiple copies of services to spread out the workload
Figure 1.5. N to N Redundancy