Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
It is NOT necessary to have a NAS or SAN to use drbd. You need two machines with network cards, each machine should have its own storage. If you are using external storage such as scsi attached raid arrays, SAN or NAS, then each machine should have its own array or at least its own partition of that external storage. If you can somehow share half your external storage array (like in dual connect scsi arrays) for one computer and the other half for the other computer, then drbd would mirror half the array to the other half going through the computers first. Similar hardware should be prefered if not identical. Drbd uses a network connection to mirror the file system. The file system will be only mounted in one machine at a time. You cannot have the file system being mounted on the secondary (not even read only). I was not able to find any recommendations on mininum hardware on the drbd faq, is there anybody on the list that knows about a link with this information? Could this be added to the drbd website faqs? Diego Quoting Amod Sutavane <amodsutavane at gmail.com>: > Hi all , > > My name is Amod and i am new to this group. I am just planning > to use DRBD for the cluster solution in my office. I need to know that > , Do i required the SAN or NAS box to use DRBD??? Can i use normal > server class machines like ??? > > Thanks in Advanced..... > > Amod Sutavane. > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/