[DRBD-user] examples of dual primary DRBD

Florian Haas florian at hastexo.com
Fri Oct 7 21:53:19 CEST 2011

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On 2011-10-07 21:40, Bart Coninckx wrote:
> Maybe before diving deeper into stuff and posting configs: it just
> occured to me that I could start all DRBD resources from the init script
> and put them primary.
> 
> So basically I'm wondering what the added value is of having DRBD things
> controlled by Pacemaker if the resources are primary all the time
> anyway. (This is a Xen cluster by the way).

How about monitoring and automatic resource recovery? And your
Xen/VirtualDomain resources being recovered properly if your DRBD runs
into a problem? And being able to properly send your node into standby
mode for software updates? Does that count as added value? :)

Florian



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