Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 10:51:26 Florian Haas wrote: > On 05/11/2010 10:44 AM, Bart Coninckx wrote: > > What also might be a nice idea (though theoretical, don't know if this is > > feasible) is to have a primary/secondary setup for iSCSI and have > > Heartbeat take care of individual targets on individual DRBD resources. > > One set could run on a seperate IP address on one node and the other > > could run on the other node on a different IP address. This would > > perfectly divide the load. However, while failing over, the Heartbeat > > resource agent should instruct IETD (if this is the iSCSI software you > > are using) to first bind to the other IP- address and then dynamically > > load the new targets. > > I'm not sure if this is possible at all and if this will result in > > breaking existing iSCSI sessions or not, but it would be a nice thing to > > happen though ... > > It is. I'm planning to showcase this in one of our upcoming webinars. > > Cheers, > Florian > Excellent, any timeframe on this? As it happens I'm dealing with a setup now that could definitely benefit from this. B.