[DRBD-user] Some info

Gandalf Corvotempesta gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com
Wed Oct 11 22:55:14 CEST 2017

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For this project I'll use v8
As I would like to use just one big resource, I don't think v9 would be
able to rebalance a single resource across 4 or 5 nodes

Il 11 ott 2017 10:48 PM, "Yannis Milios" <yannis.milios at gmail.com> ha
scritto:

> Are you planning to use DRBD8 or DRBD9?
>
> DRBD8 is limited to 2 nodes(max 3).
> DRBD9 can scale to multiple nodes.
>
> For DRBD8 the most common setup is RAID -> DRBD -> LVM  or  RAID -> LVM ->
> DRBD
> It’s management is way easier than DRBD9.
>
> The most common DRBD9 setups are RAID -> LVM (thin or thick) -> DRBD  or
>  HDD  ->  ZFS (thin or thick)  ->  DRBD.
> Complicated management...
>
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 at 20:52, Gandalf Corvotempesta <
> gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2017-10-11 21:22 GMT+02:00 Adam Goryachev <mailinglists at websitemanagers.
>> com.au>:
>> > You can also do that with raid + lvm + drbd... you just need to create
>> a new
>> > drbd as you add a new LV, and also resize the drbd after you resize the
>> LV.
>>
>> I prefere to keep drbd as minimum. I'm much more familiar with LVM.
>> If not an issue, i prefere to keep the number of drbd resources as bare
>> minimum.
>>
>> > If both drives fail on one node, then raid will pass the disk errors up
>> to
>> > DRBD, which will mark the local storage as down, and yes, it will read
>> all
>> > needed data from remote node (writes are always sent to the remote
>> node).
>> > You would probably want to migrate the remote node to primary as
>> quickly as
>> > possible, and then work on fixing the storage.
>>
>> Why should I migrate the remote node to primary? Any advantage?
>>
>> > Yes, it is not some bizarre configuration that has never been seen
>> before.
>> > You also haven't mentioned the size of your proposed raid, nor what
>> size you
>> > are planning on growing it to?
>>
>> Currently, I'm planning to start with 2TB disks. I don't think to go
>> over 10-12TB
>>
>> > Yes, you will always want multiple network paths between the two nodes,
>> and
>> > also fencing. bonding can be used to improve performance, but you should
>> > *also* have an additional network or serial or other connection between
>> the
>> > two nodes which is used for fencing.
>>
>> Ok.
>>
>> Any "bare-metal" distribution with DRBD or detailed guide on how to
>> implement HA?
>> Something like FreeNAS, or similiar.
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