Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
I'm going to attempt a similar setup here shortly, just waiting on the hardware. I found an article while researching the idea, but it somewhat leaves the high availability question unresolved. I'd also be interested to hear of any other Xen + DRBD HA implementations. http://www.gridvm.org/drbd-lvm-gnbd-and-xen-for-free-and-reliable-san.ht ml Brandon Poyner Network Engineer III CCAC - College Office 412-237-3086 > -----Original Message----- > From: drbd-user-bounces at linbit.com > [mailto:drbd-user-bounces at linbit.com] On Behalf Of dd8ne at web.de > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:01 PM > To: drbd-user at linbit.com > Subject: [DRBD-user] Cheap HA Cluster > > Hello, > > I'm thinking about a cheap HA Cluster for serving XEN DomU domains. > > That's what I'm thinking of: > > > *-----------------------* > *-----------------------* > | Server1 | | > Server2 | > | Xen |prim prim| > Xen | > | GFS |---------| DRBD8 |---------| GFS > | > |VM1 | | > VM3| > |VM2 | | > VM4| > *-----------------------* > *-----------------------* > > Has anybody got working such a cluster? > > I run in problems, using LVM on DRBD as I can not switch to > secondary as soon > as I've done a vgchange -aly or CLVMD was started as "Device > is held opened by > someone". So I ran into a Split-Brain situation for each > reboot. My solution: > using a 'normal' partition for drbd. > > > > So far, I'm able to do live migration between the servers, > using image files > on the drbd GFS partition. ... Not so bad ... > > Any hints for getting working (C)LVM? > > Oh yes... I'm using CentOS5 beta and DRBD 8.0.1 > > > Hans-Joachim > > _______________________________________________________________ > SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und > kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192 > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user >