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.​
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