My experience with trying to do block-level replication using Linux or any other platform isn't good. With the big guys, you're looking at a LOT of money... DRBD supposedly works fairly well, but as you said it's just not really confidence inspiring... Don't expect for any kind remote replication (anything over 3-4msec away rtt-wise) to work very well at all...
The openfiler guys have some good info on setting up DRBD and linux-ha in a failover situation... That's about the best guide for it that I've seen... -- Tim On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Chris McQuistion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > I'm looking for a high availability system to provide iSCSI storage for > Virtual Iron (similar to VMWare) and NFS for other Linux servers. (Two > servers/systems providing iSCSI and NFS and if one server/system goes > down, the other one takes over automatically with no downtime of services.) > > I've tried several of the guides on the Internet to build my own system > using DRBD and I'm just not happy with the results. In some cases, I > have gotten the system working 90-95%, but I don't really have > confidence in the systems I've built. > > I have some decent hardware to work with and a small budget for > software. I would be willing to buy an off-the-shelf system if I could > find one that does what I need. > > I would love to use Linux and open source software, but only if I can > have some confidence that the person who built it who really knew what > they were doing. > > Any ideas? Is there a decently-priced product that can do this and > works well? If not, I would be willing to hire someone to come in and > build this for me if they have a successful background with this > technology. > > Chris > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
