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6.8. Specifying a Preferred Location

Pacemaker does not rely on any sort of hardware symmetry between nodes, so it may well be that one machine is more powerful than the other. In such cases it makes sense to host the resources there if it is available. To do this we create a location constraint. Again we give it a descriptive name (prefer-pcmk-1), specify the resource we want to run there (WebSite), how badly we’d like it to run there (we’ll use 50 for now, but in a two-node situation almost any value above 0 will do) and the host’s name.
# crm configure location prefer-pcmk-1 WebSite 50: pcmk-1
# crm configure show
node pcmk-1
node pcmk-2
primitive WebSite ocf:heartbeat:apache \
    params configfile="/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf" \
    op monitor interval="1min"
primitive ClusterIP ocf:heartbeat:IPaddr2 \
    params ip="192.168.122.101" cidr_netmask="32" \
    op monitor interval="30s"location prefer-pcmk-1 WebSite 50: pcmk-1colocation website-with-ip inf: WebSite ClusterIP
property $id="cib-bootstrap-options" \
    dc-version="1.1.5-bdd89e69ba545404d02445be1f3d72e6a203ba2f" \
    cluster-infrastructure="openais" \
    expected-quorum-votes="2" \
    stonith-enabled="false" \
    no-quorum-policy="ignore"
rsc_defaults $id="rsc-options" \
    resource-stickiness="100"
# crm_mon
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Last updated: Fri Aug 28 16:17:35 2009
Stack: openais
Current DC: pcmk-2 - partition with quorum
Version: 1.1.5-bdd89e69ba545404d02445be1f3d72e6a203ba2f
2 Nodes configured, 2 expected votes
2 Resources configured.
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Online: [ pcmk-1 pcmk-2 ]

ClusterIP    (ocf::heartbeat:IPaddr):    Started pcmk-2WebSite    (ocf::heartbeat:apache):    Started pcmk-2
Wait a minute, the resources are still on pcmk-2!
Even though we now prefer pcmk-1 over pcmk-2, that preference is (intentionally) less than the resource stickiness (how much we preferred not to have unnecessary downtime).
To see the current placement scores, you can use a tool called ptest
ptest -sL

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