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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] Three-way replication setup
From: Felix Frank <ff at mpexnet.de>
To: Luca Fornasari <luca.fornasari at upprovider.it>
CC: drbd-user at lists.linbit.com
Date: 06/05/2012 06:11 PM
> In my setup I can see the upper layer resource on "primary" and "backup"
> but have no idea how to access the resource on "secondary" in case
> primary crashes.
> Shoul I access the lower layer resource on "secondary" (after promoting
> it to primary)?
> no. After promoting the lower layer resource, you (or rather, your
> cluster manager) configures the upper level resource on the respective
> node and makes it primary.
>
> The remote node ("backup") connects to a floating IP that also migrates
> to the second node.
>
> Hope that makes things a little clearer.
>
> Cheers,
> Felix
It now makes sense to me.
Unluckly I have to renounce to the clustering features offered by
Proxmox and use some "manual" procedure.
That's anyway acceptable in my scenario where disaster recovery is the
main goal.
Thank you Felix.
Luca