On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:32 PM, John Kinsella <j...@stratosec.co> wrote:
> Thought I'd throw this question out on the list - we're working on > geographically (1500 miles) replicated databases for customers who really > don't want their stuff to go down. > > In this particular case, how they've architected their DB schemas means > they're really not friendly to the standard transactional replication (this > is MSSQL server) so we're looking at replicating the whole block device the > db is stored on. > > We've tried using… > * Ceph - know it's not meant for geo-rep…loving it locally, though! > * Gluster - When clustering across the WAN, performance was weak. Don't > have enough disks/nodes to create a gluster cluster to replicate with > gluster-geo-replicate > * drbd in active/standby - Fairly decent performance. I hear it'd be > better with the drbd-proxy, but don't feel like spending the $$ yet. I've > been previously shot in the foot enough times with drbd active/active that > I won't try that again. > > Currently using drbd (I'm pondering writing management of the > primary/secondary stuff into ACS) but curious if others have found ways of > doing this with ACS that they like? > > John > > Stratosec - Secure Infrastructure as a Service > o: 415.315.9385 > @johnlkinsella > > one word, one filesystem, ZFS
