On Mar 12, 2013, at 6:42 PM, Outback Dingo <outbackdi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 Ah yes, that's on our list, as well. Might have to set up a testbed and see…
