Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Thanks David Lee and Alan Robertson for the reference :)
----- Forwarded message from Alan Robertson <alanr at unix.sh> -----
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:04:36 -0700
From: Alan Robertson <alanr at unix.sh>
Subject: Re: [Linux-ha-dev] Positive publicity
To: High-Availability Linux Development List <linux-ha-dev at lists.linux-ha.org>
David Lee wrote:
>Positive writeup of heartbeat...
>
>This lunchtime I was browing through "PC PRO" magazine (March 2006 issue)
>and spotted an article "SAN on the cheap". They used two CentOS boxes
>equipped with heartbeat and DRBD to provide an iSCSI service. They then
>used a Windows client to copy files on it, and did various nasty things
>(shut heartbeat on primary; pulling power lead on primary, etc.) to the
>CentOS boxes to try to disrupt the service.
>
> "When we first started writing this article, ... while we wanted to
> believe it was all going to work, we weren't sure whether it would.
> By the end ... we can be nothing but impressed by how well it works.
> Using off-the-peg open-source software, we've managed to put together
> a basic but compelling implementation of a SAN using iSCSI. We've
> only just touched on what a SAN is for and what iSCSI can do, but what
> a great start."
>
>(Thought some of you might like to know! Have a good weekend.)
This article is available online here:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/82284/san-on-the-cheap.html
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Alan Robertson <alanr at unix.sh>
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