On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Dan Barker <[email protected]> wrote:
>>Well if you had created a partition (/dev/sdc1) rather than use the full disk 
>>(/dev/sdc), then you could have set up that partition to match the size of 
>>the disk on your primary.
>
> Partition. Great idea. If I had thought of that, I'd have bought only one new 
> 500G disk instead of two. Thanks for the hint. 1T disks cost the same as 500G 
> these days.

The physical device sizes differing isn't a problem at all; DRBD will
just select the smaller size of the two.

>>Why? Your cluster manager (typically Pacemaker) should take care of that for 
>>you.
>
> No cluster manager, no NA. Easy manual failover. This is a lab environment 
> and HA is not really needed. The users of drbd storage are ESXi hosts. To 
> "take" the primary server off line I:
> DrbdR0: drbdadm primary all (allow dual primaries is on)
> DrbdR0: start iet
> ESXi (all): verify all four paths to both drbd are online

We may have had this discussion before, but:
http://fghaas.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/dual-primary-drbd-iscsi-and-multipath-dont-do-that/

> Thanks for the help.

Pleasure.

Cheers,
Florian

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