[DRBD-user] Intro questions

[Yannis Milios]

I believe that most of your questions can be answered by reading the DRBD
user's guide..

https://docs.linbit.com/docs/users-guide-8.4/#p-intro

There are 2 versions of DRBD available at the moment, DRBD8 (for up to 2
nodes) and DRBD9 (for 2+ nodes).

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 7:07 AM Alex <mysqlstudent at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I posted this message a few days ago and I'm not sure it was received.
> I'm really hoping someone can help.
>
> I'm trying to understand how drbd works and how all the different
> pieces go together. I first installed drbd on Linux many, many years
> ago, but it appears to be quite different and obviously more mature.
>
> I have a mail server with about 3TB of disk space for users. I'd like
> to create a completely different system on a completely different
> network and somehow provide a single interface for users to access
> their email.
>
> Does drbd typically work with a front-end system that helps to manage
> which system is active?
>
> Ideally I'd like a system where I can advertise a single IP address in
> DNS and have traffic routed to the currently active system but I don't
> really understand how all the pieces go together.
>
> Does drbd typically involve NFS? LVM?
>
> Is there a general overview doc that provides a description of typical
> configurations?
>
> What are the services that are available as open source as compared
> with the ones offered commercially by linbit?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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