[Veritas-ha] measure VCS heartbeat load ?

[Gene Henriksen]

Are you using just VCS or the DBE/HA product?

VCS is fine with 10Mb. The load, under normal operating conditions, is 2
heartbeats per second or 2 56 byte packets per second (per cluster node),
hardly a heavy load for 10Mb/sec. During startup of a node when the cluster
is running, there is a transfer of the current configuration by a running
node to the initializing node over the heartbeats links (all loads are
balanced over all high priority links). This probably doesn't exceed more
than a couple of MB in most conditions and only takes a few seconds (watch
hastatus when you boot a new node as it goes from REMOTE BUILD to RUNNING).
Under normal running conditions, other than heartbeats, any commands you
issue, such as "hares -add" or "hagrp -switch" are sent across the links as
are changes in status.

Overall it is a light load.

If you are using DBE/AC (Oracle 9i RAC for example), the minimum
recommendation from Oracle is Gigabit ethernet connections due to the load
RAC places on the links.



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Subject: [Veritas-ha] measure VCS heartbeat load ?


Just wonder is there a way to measure VCS heartbeat load ? that will decide
whether to add or upgrade heartbeat links.


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