What's Happening with Open Source HA Software?

Monkius asks: "A year ago, there seemed to be two promising Linux HA frameworks--along with lots and lots of experimental things: SGI's FailSafe, and Kimberlite from Mission Critical Linux. The FailSafe software website now seems very out of date, although the mailing list remains active, and there seems to be forward momentum. On the other hand, Redhat seems to have forked the development of Kimberlite, calling the fork Redhat Cluster Manager. They don't seem to be making development source available, at least to the public. Are these two projects still relevant? What's the current status of Open Source HA?"

Re:HA!

[hackwrench]

It would appear from sites linked to from other posts means High Availabilty

Re:HA!

[brunson]

It's still standard journalistic practice to define any acronym the first time it's used in an article.

Re:HA!

[checkyoulater]

It's still standard journalistic practice to define any acronym the first time it's used in an article.

And you expect such rules to be followed on /.?

Re:They aren't around anymore

[ivan256]

Hey! We're not out of business! We're still here, and we still make cluster software. Kimberlite 2.0 has been in CVS [mclinux.com] for quite some time. Try it out!

Re:They aren't around anymore

[einhverfr]

hehe. It is interesting how the reports of your demise have been exadurated...

Heartbeat

[jtharpla]

I'm working with heartbeat from the Linux-HA [linux-ha.org] project and it is very much alive and well, as is the linux-ha mailing list [theaimsgroup.com].

same question, with links

[morcheeba]

Yikes! Links make it a lot easier for people to figure out what's going on!

"A year ago, there seemed to be two promising Linux HA [high availability] frameworks--along with lots and lots of experimental things: SGI's FailSafe [sgi.com], and Kimberlite [missioncriticallinux.com] from Mission Critical Linux [missioncriticallinux.com]. The FailSafe software website now seems very out of date, although the mailing list [tummy.com] remains active, and there seems to be forward momentum. On the other hand, Redhat seems to have forked the development of Kimberlite, calling the fork Redhat Cluster Manager [redhat.com]. They don't seem to be making development source available, at least to the public. Are these two projects still relevant? What's the current status of Open Source HA?"

Try also linux-ha.org [linux-ha.org] and open cluster [freshmeat.net]

Re:same question, with links

[brianmstevens]

Ouch, fork that hurts. Unfortunately MCL "met industry pressures" and is now roughly the size of a small basketball team rather than the 100+ we once were. Most of those who launched and developed kimberlite are now at Red Hat, hence its inclusion *finally* into Red Hat's products. We consider this a rejuvenation rather than a fork since at MCL we had bowed to proprietary pressures and our kimberlite enhancements languished. Kimberlite is a great HA core and we are excited at having the opportunity to continue its development. Lots of new features, all still GPL, all available on Red Hat's ftp.

Kimberlite is still around.

[ivan256]

Don't let the fork get you down, the kimberlite-dev list [mclx.com] is still active, and kimberlite is still supported. Unlike some other companies, we don't make it difficult to find the code if you want to contribute, and you can peak into the CVS repository if you want to see what's going on. You'll need to look in CVS for the latest code, since we don't seem to have updated the packages or tarballs for quite some time. Check out the kimberlite website [mclx.com] for mailing lists and such.

Download it and try it out. Or better yet, call us and buy the commercial version. It's about the same price or cheaper then RedHat advanced server, and you're not stuck running RedHat.