Hi Matthew, thank you for sharing your experience!
Indeed, I encountered some of the obstacles you mentioned. I considered switching to another distro, but would prefer to stay with what I use regulary in most of our VMs and my desktop.
FYI, I am interested in building a small cluster consisting of a shared storage that provides volumes for some virtual machines. High availability is not my main goal - I am most interested in reducing/avoiding downtimes for maintenance work (to save me some sleep ;-).
From my current POV I do not need a clustered LVM for this but can do it with a non clustered volume group on an active/passive drbd cluster and just export volumes via iSCSI for my virtual machines. I am a bit curious how well it will work to add/remove iSCSI LUNs on a running cluster.
Initially I thought it would be more flexible/beautiful and less error prone if I would use a clustered volume manager but now I tend to choose the path of the slightest complexity and therefore dismiss clustered volumes and active/active DRBD.
I will find out if the approach is feasible when the hardware arrives... Thank you and best regards, Sven _______________________________________________ Pacemaker mailing list: [email protected] http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org Getting started: http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf Bugs: http://bugs.clusterlabs.org
