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.
Two-node Active/Passive clusters using Pacemaker and DRBD are a cost-effective solution for many High Availability situations.
By supporting many nodes, Pacemaker can dramatically reduce hardware costs by allowing several active/passive clusters to be combined and share a common backup node.
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.