Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Direct back-to-back means a dedicated pair of NICs and a single cable between them - this optimizes latency which DRBD is sensitive to. DRBD is known to work on lesser configurations too, with varying performance impacts. The IP network should not matter as far as I know. Lionel Sausin Le 25/11/2012 20:46, marcus a écrit : > Hello > Thank you for making this product available! > > In your documentation you say: > "It is recommended that you run your DRBD replication over a > "dedicated connection", preferably a "direct, back-to-back, Gigabit > Ethernet connection." > > Does this mean a second NIC (in each host) on the same subnet, > a second NIC (in each host) on a different, separate switch and subnet, > or a second NIC (in each host) and a configured cross-over cable?? > > I am configuring 2 servers on a small network. One as primary and the > second as a hot standby. I want to use DRBD to replicate the data > partition. > > thanks in advance > Marcus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20121126/0ca38e0f/attachment.htm>