What specifically don't you get about this? The features DRBD provides are no different when running in a virtual machine so I'm not sure what you think makes this fundamentally problematic?
Regards, Dennis On 18.02.2015 17:49, Prater, James K. wrote: > I continue to see people run DRDB clusters as VM guests. I personally don't > get this. The only reason to do this is as a proof of concept and not for > production. I run a DRDB cluster as a source of data storage system for a > virtualization environment. It is based on physical machines for maximum > performance. Depending on the I/O requirements of the DRBD system and it's > applications running underneath it could make it very difficult for the > virtualization hosts to supply the necessary I/O capability to support the > required load. > > James > > From: Antonio Fernández Pérez [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 08:55 AM > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: [DRBD-user] DRBD on virtual machine > > Hi list: > > I need your help ... I have to migrate two physical servers with > DRBD+Pacemaker+Corosync to virtual machines. On the new set of virtual > machines I will can manage more hardware resources but, do you have any > reason advise against using DRBD on virtual machines? > > I hope your answers. > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > > Antonio. > ________________________________ > Notice: This email and any attachments may contain proprietary (Draper > non-public) and/or export-controlled information of Draper Laboratory. If you > are not the intended recipient of this email, please immediately notify the > sender by replying to this email and immediately destroy all copies of this > email. > ________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > _______________________________________________ drbd-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user
