5.3.5. Start Pacemaker on Cluster Nodes

Start the cluster stack on both cluster nodes using the following command.

# pcs cluster start

Verify corosync membership

# pcs status corosync
Membership information
----------------------
    Nodeid      Votes Name
         1          1 node1 (local)

Verify Pacemaker status. At first, the pcs cluster status output will look like this.

# pcs status
Cluster name: mycluster
Last updated: Fri Aug 21 16:14:05 2015
Last change: Fri Aug 21 14:02:14 2015
Stack: corosync
Current DC: NONE
Version: 1.1.12-a14efad
1 Nodes configured, unknown expected votes
0 Resources configured

After about a minute, you should see your two cluster nodes come online.

# pcs status
Cluster name: mycluster
Last updated: Fri Aug 21 16:16:32 2015
Last change: Fri Aug 21 14:02:14 2015
Stack: corosync
Current DC: node1 (1) - partition with quorum
Version: 1.1.12-a14efad
2 Nodes configured
0 Resources configured

Online: [ node1 node2 ]

For the sake of this tutorial, we are going to disable stonith to avoid having to cover fencing device configuration.

# pcs property set stonith-enabled=false