[DRBD-user] drbd 8.3 - 6 nodes

Umarzuki Mochlis umarzuki at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 12:13:24 CET 2012

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


Pada 6 Mac 2012 6:57 PTG, Kaloyan Kovachev <kkovachev at varna.net> menulis:

>> Keep in mind that this is shared storage we're talking about here, no
>> local disks in either A1 *or* B1. I believe DRBD could be made to
>> operate thus, but there might be performance issues.
>
> Again Yes. Performance will be lower and protocol A with DRBD Proxy may be
> required, but again if the SAN does not provide native cross-site
> replication, there is not much else to do ... rsync from a snapshot is one
> i can think of, but even from the currently inactive node (A3) the
> performance will suffer and additionally there will be delay in
> synchronization and possible data loss, so DRBD is still better.

addendum:

what i want to do is storage failover since email service's clustering
is handled by zimbra-cluster and rgmaner + cman on centos

the reason we're using drbd is because we have no budget for remote
mirroring which requires 2 SAN routers on current network setup

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Regards,

Umarzuki Mochlis
http://debmal.my



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