[DRBD-user] Drbd on one host and 2 partitions

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Mon Jan 25 15:23:52 CET 2010

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On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 01:13:32PM +0100, Reykjavik hindisvik wrote:
> thanx for your answer.
> 
> ... Even if the 2 partitions are 2 SCSI targets? do you think I can do
> software RAID on 2 iscsi parts?

That is what you get for not providing enough context ;)

DRBD is for replication between two nodes,
which typically form a HA cluster and/or desaster recovery group.

DRBD is not the "I want my SANs to replicate,
but don't want to pay the licence" solution.

DRBD is the solution to _replace_ your single SAN box
with a clustering solution, using e.g. Pacemaker + DRBD + iSCSI (+ NFS,
+ SAMBA), and direct attached storage on the cluster nodes. For the
price of one SAN, you can get the whole cluster + LINBIT support ;)


Of course, that does not help you once you have those SANs already.


So, YES, of course you can utilize DRBD to replicate between SANs, as
well.  Typically you'd have your SANs in different fire section (or
different sites, even), and have (at least) one DRBD "head" node for
each SAN.  We at LINBIT have encountered quite a few interesting setups
in that area.


If you want to repliate within _one_ node, however,
that is not DRBD's job.


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