[DRBD-user] Connectivity question

Rois Cannon rois at cobiz.com
Wed Dec 19 00:18:35 CET 2007

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If this is just your development version a serial link probably isn't
necessary.  I wanted to see how it would work so I created a serial link
in my vmware server setup for both nodes.  It's just one more
communication path for redundancy.  I am planning to use it when I
implement in production.


On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:29 -0500, Greg Haase wrote:
> Right.
> 
> Actually, I found this link on Florian's blog about dopd:
> http://fghaas.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/an-underrated-cluster-admins-companion-dopd/
> 
> ... Which subsequently has a link to this page:
> http://fghaas.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/configuring-heartbeat-links/
> 
> ... Which describes exactly as you say.  eth1, eth0 and serial.  I have
> just got  mcast setup on eth0 to accompany bcast on eth1 and done the dopd
> configs. I'm going to do some testing with this setup and see what
> happens.  I haven't explored creating a serial connection on a virtual
> machine, but I never seem to have luck with serial connections in general
> (thinking minicom) so I'm a little hesitant to go there.
> 
> > I'm doing something similar and although I'm pretty new at this I'm
> > gathering the best setup would be to have heartbeat running over both
> > eth0 and eth1 as well as providing a serial connection.  That way if the
> > drbd link goes down, the peer-outdater program can use one of the other
> > heartbeat paths/links to outdate the secondary and keep heartbeat from
> > using it.
> >
> > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 10:03 -0500, Greg Haase wrote:
> >> I'm playing around with a drbd + mysql setup, and I had some questions
> >> about how the servers should be connected.
> >>
> >> I currently have two virtual machines running, each with two ethernet
> >> ports. On each machine eth0 is Bridged - so it's connected to our
> >> development subnet. The  eth1 ports are both on a private network within
> >> VM (VMnet5). I think that's the best way I can simulate a
> >> cross-connected
> >> cable between servers on eth1. I have both heartbeat bcast and drbd
> >> working over eth1.
> >>
> >> I've had this working for a while and I've been testing various
> >> fail-over
> >> situations.
> >>
> >> The one thing I've noticed is that pretty much all hell breaks loose if
> >> I
> >> take down eth1 on either of the servers. While I would admit in a real
> >> situation it is unlikely that anything should happen here, it can be a
> >> point of failure.
> >>
> >> What are the best ways of address this? Is my setup lacking?
> >>
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