On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Serge Dubrouski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Igor Chudov <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Serge Dubrouski <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Taking into account "simple" the answer is no. You can try RedHat >>> Cluster Suite on CentOS, but that's not simple. >>> >>> What's wrong with DRBD/Pacemaker/Corosync ? >> >> DRBD/Pacemaker was complicated, documentation did not exist or did not >> match the behavior, the GUI was broken and never really worked. Config >> files were completely opaque. I spent weeks on this without having >> something that could work and was documentable. >> >> Then I got the DRBD/heartbeat to work without Pacemaker, however, its >> reliability leaves much to be desired. For example, if both systems >> come up at the same time, they cannot decide who gets the resource. I >> did a hack to fix that (restarting heartbeat after boot of one of the >> systems) but that did not leave me with a warm and comfortable >> feeling. >> >> Then once in a while DRBD would stop syncing. >> >> I need to replace our old, aging corporate DRBD/Heartbeat network >> storage implementation, which always worked, but the servers are now >> getting old. I am feeling very uncomfortable about using what I have >> for replacement. > > If DRBD/Heartbeat always worked for you and you feel comfortable with > it then why not just replace aged hardware? Though your answer is a > bit confusing: on one hand you say that Heartbeat/DRBD always worked > for you on other hand you say that sometimes DRBD stop syncing.
What worked was the old Heartbeat on an old Debian install. What is not working so well is the new Heartbeat on Ubuntu Lucid. > May be your company should just spend more money and buy something > like NetApp appliance? In this case you'd get a reliable device that's > relatively easy to manage plus commercial support for it. They have > clustered solutions as well. I am open to this personally. Does this NetAppliance have clustering/failover capabilities? Igor > >> >> i >> >> >>> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Igor Chudov <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I am interested in finding out Open Source alternative that would >>>> replace both DRBD as well as Heartbeat. I am definitely NOT looking >>>> for pacemaker either. >>>> >>>> I am looking for something simple, just file serving ability and >>>> switching NFS and samba would be all I need. >>>> >>>> igor >>>> >>>> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Serge Dubrouski <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> The question is too broad. Are you interested in Open Source or >>>>> proprietary product? What do you want to achieve? >>>>> >>>>> One of the answers could be AoE (ATA over Ethernet) + OCFS2. >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Igor Chudov <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> I would like to know if there are relatively straightforward Linux >>>>>> based alternatives to DRBD and heartbeat. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any pointers and suggestions will be gratefully accepted. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>> >>>>>> i >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Linux-HA mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha >>>>>> See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Serge Dubrouski. >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Linux-HA mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha >>>>> See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Linux-HA mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha >>>> See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Serge Dubrouski. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux-HA mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha >>> See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-HA mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha >> See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems >> > > > > -- > Serge Dubrouski. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems > _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
