Here is a scenario that I was just asked about:
NFS Server A exports /data
NFS Server B exports /data
Several client servers mount /data
The questions are:
How to keep NFS Server A and B in sync
On the client servers, if NFS Server A is down, how to mount /data from
NFS Server B (and vice
On 8/4/2010 at 04:30 PM, Lionel Dyck ld...@us.ibm.com wrote:
Here is a scenario that I was just asked about:
NFS Server A exports /data
NFS Server B exports /data
Several client servers mount /data
The questions are:
How to keep NFS Server A and B in sync
On the client servers, if
One other point - the two NFS Servers are on different CEC's/LPARs for
availability and the storage may not be share-able .
but yes - it is an HA cluster
Thanks
Lionel
Lionel B. Dyck
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IBM Corporation
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On 8/4/2010 at 04:45 PM, Lionel Dyck ld...@us.ibm.com wrote:
One other point - the two NFS Servers are on different CEC's/LPARs for
availability and the storage may not be share-able .
iSCSI will make it shareable.
Mark Post
Another point - the dasd is all mainframe (eckd) dasd :-)
Thanks
Lionel B. Dyck
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From: Mark Post mp...@novell.com
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On 8/4/2010 at 05:00 PM, Lionel Dyck ld...@us.ibm.com wrote:
Another point - the dasd is all mainframe (eckd) dasd :-)
Doesn't matter. iSCSI doesn't really care what the underlying architecture is,
so long as it's a block device.
Mark Post
ECKD shop here... Nothing wrong with that -
Where are your 2 lpars? Why can't they share?
If you do not have physical access to both, you will need to replicate it over
a network.
What that network is depends...
You can send it over an IP with DRBD.
You can replicate it with HW with PPRC. I
