[DRBD-user] DRBD 8.0 life cycle

[Paul D. O'Rorke]

Thanks Lars,

> DRBD 9 does everything DRBD 8 does.
> Some things it does better.
> And it can do some things you may not (yet) need.

I went ahead and did the reading...  ;-)   I will move to DRBD9.

> You can use DRBD 9 the same way you used DRBD 8, if you want to.
> (some config options have been renamed, or moved to different sections)

I was very pleased to see how my current config will still work without 
having to revisit what I am doing.

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the great work.  You have saved my bacon multiple times.

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On 2021-08-26 6:03 a.m., Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 03:34:58PM -0700, Paul D. O'Rorke wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have been running a DRDB-8 simple 3 node disaster recovery set up of
>> libvirt VMs for a number of years and have been very happy with it.   Our
>> needs are simple, 2 servers on Protocol C, each running a handful of VMs as
>> primary and replicated to the other, and both stacked to a third server via
>> protocol A for disaster recover/point in time backups (I run my nightly
>> backups off of the tertiary node so as to limit the impact on the two
>> primary servers.)
>>
>> Now my hardware needs replacing and it looks like DRBD 8 is no longer
>> available?    We are not Amazon, we do not need a full cluster with all it's
>> bells and whistles, the classic DRBD8 three node setup still works for me.
>>
>> My question is whether DRBD8 is still "supported"and whether there are good
>> reasons to move to DRBD9?
> Depends on what you feel "supported" means.
>
> As we put on our web page at https://linbit.com/solutions-rfq/
> DRBD 8 < 8.4 is end of life.
> DRBD 8.4 has left "active maintenance" years ago, but needs to be supported
> while existing customers pay for existing deployments.  The "relevant" platform
> here is RHEL 7, which ends its "Extended Lifecycle Support" in 2026,
> so that's the end date for our 8.4 support as well.
>
> For new deployments, or more recent Platforms (RHEL 8, etc),
> Linbit does provide support for DBRD 9 or later.
>
> DRBD 9 does everything DRBD 8 does.
> Some things it does better.
> And it can do some things you may not (yet) need.
>
> You can use DRBD 9 the same way you used DRBD 8, if you want to.
> (some config options have been renamed, or moved to different sections)
>
>      Lars
>
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