Restrictions on Pacemaker

Important: In Db2® 11.5.8 and later, Mutual Failover high availability is supported when using Pacemaker as the integrated cluster manager. In Db2 11.5.6 and later, the Pacemaker cluster manager for automated fail-over to HADR standby databases is packaged and installed with Db2. In Db2 11.5.5, Pacemaker is included and available for production environments. In Db2 11.5.4, Pacemaker is included as a technology preview only, for development, test, and proof-of-concept environments.

There are some restrictions to using Pacemaker.

Software version

The version of Pacemaker and all dependent software supported must match the version referenced in Prerequisites for an integrated solution using Pacemaker.

The following will be supported in future releases:

  • Mount point monitoring
  • Data Partitioning Feature (DPF)
  • pureScale
  • All HA configurations on AIX