Re: [DRBD-user] Decent shared storage setup for virtualization

2011-02-15 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 02/15/2011 04:07 AM, Mike Lovell wrote: On 02/14/2011 12:59 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: I'm trying to wrap my head around storage setups that might work for virtualization and I wonder if people here have experience with creating a drbd setup for this purpose. What I am currently

Re: [DRBD-user] Decent shared storage setup for virtualization

2011-02-15 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 02/15/2011 11:15 AM, James Masson wrote: I wouldn't use Raid5/6 take a look at these NFS stats - my VM hosting workload is 90% write. For my everyday VM workloads, the only time there are significant reads from the VM shared storage is at VM boot time, and even then, the VM host and

[DRBD-user] Partitioning /dev/drbd1

2011-03-08 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Hi, I'm trying set up a redundant iscsi server using drbd but it seems I'm unable to get the os to recognize the partitioning of the drbd device: [root@storage2 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/drbd1 Disk /dev/drbd1: 1073 MB, 1073672192 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders Units = cylinders of

Re: [DRBD-user] Partitioning /dev/drbd1

2011-03-08 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 03/08/2011 04:25 PM, Felix Frank wrote: On 03/08/2011 04:23 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Hi, I'm trying set up a redundant iscsi server using drbd but it seems I'm unable to get the os to recognize the partitioning of the drbd device: [root@storage2 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/drbd1 Disk /dev

Re: [DRBD-user] Partitioning /dev/drbd1

2011-03-09 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 03/09/2011 09:18 AM, Felix Frank wrote: while partitioning a partition is possible and rather straight-forward, it sure isn't standard practice. I wasn't actually suggesting to create partitions in partitions I just wasn't aware that the drbd device nodes are partitions and not basic block

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD or not DRBD ?

2011-04-25 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 04/24/2011 10:05 PM, Digimer wrote: Comments in-line. On 04/24/2011 11:34 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: Digimer, All useful stuff. Thanks. I hadn't considered three rather than two networks. That's a good case for it. Here's what I'm trying to scope out, and from your comments it looks to be

Re: [DRBD-user] Poor DRBD performance, HELP!

2011-06-27 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 06/27/2011 10:20 AM, Felix Frank wrote: On 06/26/2011 05:30 PM, Andreas Hofmeister wrote: With 'dd' on a system with similar performance (8x15k SAS disks, LSI, 10GBE), I get 1GByte/s into the local block device but only 600MByte/s into the DRBD device. Using another benchmark (fio with

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD won't take 1G syncer rate

2011-08-05 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 08/05/2011 09:53 AM, Bart Coninckx wrote: On 08/05/11 08:29, Caspar Smit wrote: Hi Matt, 1000M means 1000 Mb/s NOT 1000mbps. To reach 1000M you should have at least one (probably two) 10gbit interface(s). Since you have two 1gbit interfaces (bonded with balance-rr?) a value between 100M and

Re: [DRBD-user] openfiler HA

2012-05-01 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 05/01/2012 08:01 AM, Elias Chatzigeorgiou wrote: Hello, I am looking for some consultancy regarding an openfiler HA cluster. The setup is mainly based on the well known howtoforge article (http://www.howtoforge.com/openfiler-2.99-active-passive-with-corosync-pacemaker-and-drbd) The

Re: [DRBD-user] openfiler HA

2012-05-01 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 05/01/2012 03:13 PM, Elias Chatzigeorgiou wrote: Hi Dennis, what makes you think openfiler is dead? I believe there are many shops that rely on OF for a quick storage solution. There is no active development taking place. If you go to the community page and follow the coding link you end

Re: [DRBD-user] Fault Tolerant NFS

2012-06-06 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 06/06/2012 08:16 AM, Torsten Rosenberger wrote: Am 06.06.2012 05:50, schrieb Yount, William D: I understand what heartbeat does in the general sense. Actually configuring it correctly and making it work the way it is supposed to is the problem. I have read the official DRBD/Heartbeat

Re: [DRBD-user] Corosync Configuration

2012-06-12 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 06/12/2012 04:04 PM, Eduardo Diaz - Gmail wrote: Don't use crossover cables.. In my experience use crossover cables for two node cluster make only problems... use a simple switch.. Why would a setup with 2 cables and a switch be more reliable than just a single cable? That doesn't make

Re: [DRBD-user] Corosync Configuration

2012-06-13 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 06/13/2012 05:56 PM, William Seligman wrote: On 6/13/12 11:45 AM, Arnold Krille wrote: On Wednesday 13 June 2012 09:26:45 Felix Frank wrote: On 06/12/2012 08:23 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Don't use crossover cables.. In my experience use crossover cables for two node cluster make

[DRBD-user] resync-rate not applied

2012-08-02 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Hi, I just set up a traditional drbd primary/secondary system between two hosts that are connected with gigabit ports. The problem is that the resync rate is only 5M even though in the config file I set it to 40M. I also tried: drbdadm disk-options --resync-rate=40M drbd1 which doesn't result in

Re: [DRBD-user] resync-rate not applied

2012-08-03 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 08/03/2012 09:37 AM, Felix Frank wrote: Hi, On 08/03/2012 03:27 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: The problem is that the resync rate is only 5M even though in the config file I set it to 40M. what's telling you this 5M figure? What does drbdsetup minor show have to say on the matter

Re: [DRBD-user] resync-rate not applied

2012-08-14 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 08/14/2012 02:43 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 08/03/2012 03:27 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Hi, I just set up a traditional drbd primary/secondary system between two hosts that are connected with gigabit ports. The problem is that the resync rate is only 5M even though

[DRBD-user] High io-wait

2012-08-14 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Hi, now that I got the re-sync issue sorted by moving to 8.3 instead of 8.4 I'm investigating why I'm seeing an i/o load of 20% even when I run a fio sequential write test throttled to 5M/s. Once I disconnect the secondary node the i/o wait time decreases significantly so it seems the connection

Re: [DRBD-user] High io-wait

2012-08-15 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 08/15/2012 03:54 AM, Phil Frost wrote: On 08/14/2012 08:26 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Hi, now that I got the re-sync issue sorted by moving to 8.3 instead of 8.4 I'm investigating why I'm seeing an i/o load of 20% even when I run a fio sequential write test throttled to 5M/s. Once I

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd read/write performance

2012-08-16 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 08/16/2012 08:38 AM, Mia Lueng wrote: Hi All: I setup a drbd device on a storage . Its write performance can reach to 300MB/s tested by dd. But when I setup a drbd device on it , use dd to test its write performance (peer node does not connect). The test result is only 40MB/s. drbd

Re: [DRBD-user] resync-rate not applied

2012-08-16 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 08/14/2012 03:51 PM, Nik Martin wrote: On 08/13/2012 07:43 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 08/03/2012 03:27 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Hi, I just set up a traditional drbd primary/secondary system between two hosts that are connected with gigabit ports. The problem

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd+mysql+innodb

2013-06-12 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 13.06.2013 00:19, Robinson, Eric wrote: Hi Dirk – Thanks for the feedback. I do need some clarification, though. DRBD replicates disk block changes to a standby volume. If the primary node suddenly fails, the cluster manager promotes the standby node to primary and starts the MySQL service.

Re: [DRBD-user] Using DRBD as the Only RAID

2014-07-23 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 23.07.2014 23:42, Robinson, Eric wrote: Sounds like you want to run Raid1 (drbd) over Raid0 (ssd+md?). This is more fragile than Raid0 over Raid1, so you might consider implementing Raid0 using DM over multiple drbd devices, each mirroring a single ssd. Andreas Our plan is to

Re: [DRBD-user] Using DRBD as the Only RAID

2014-07-23 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 24.07.2014 03:38, Robinson, Eric wrote: On 23.07.2014 23:42, Robinson, Eric wrote: Sounds like you want to run Raid1 (drbd) over Raid0 (ssd+md?). This is more fragile than Raid0 over Raid1, so you might consider implementing Raid0 using DM over multiple drbd devices, each mirroring a

[DRBD-user] resize2fs not working after drbd resize

2015-01-15 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Hi, I'm running a small-ish pacemaker+drbd cluster of two virtual machines and when I try to resize it the resizing of the block device seems to work fine but when i finally try to also resize the ext4 filesystem on /dev/drbd1 I get this: [root@nfs2 ~]# resize2fs -p /dev/drbd1 resize2fs 1.41.12

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD on virtual machine

2015-02-18 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
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

[DRBD-user] add volume to resource

2015-06-07 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Hi, is it possible to add a volume to an existing resource that already has a volume 0 defined? If so how would the meta-data be initialized for that new volume since the meta-disk parameter is per volume but the create-md command only specifies the complete resource? Regards, Dennis

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD Can't Mount Under Pacemaker

2015-06-26 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 26.06.2015 12:42, JA E wrote: Hi, I am newbie to clustering. I managed to setup cluster with pacemaker,corosysnc, drbd and pcs in two nodes. But after test restart of both node it seems drbd can't mount the desired folder when controlled by pacemaker, manually it's fine.

Re: [DRBD-user] add volume to resource

2015-06-10 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 08.06.2015 17:35, Lars Ellenberg wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 04:36:22AM +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Hi, is it possible to add a volume to an existing resource that already has a volume 0 defined? If so how would the meta-data be initialized for that new volume since the meta

[DRBD-user] Pacemaker cluster: drbdadm: Unknown command 'syncer'

2015-08-02 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Hi, I'm trying to setup drbd on two Centos 7 systems and while the manual init of drbd went fine once I try to start drbd using pacemaker I get an error in the logs: Aug 3 04:08:48 nfs1 kernel: drbd: initialized. Version: 8.4.6 (api:1/proto:86-101) Aug 3 04:08:48 nfs1 kernel: drbd: GIT-hash:

Re: [DRBD-user] New storage: avoid split brains

2016-10-15 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 15.10.2016 12:56, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > Hi to all > i would like to spin up a new shared storage > should i use drbd 8 or 9? > > Additionally and more important: are there any ways to totally avoid > splitbrains? Obviously, the network used for sync is fully redundant (at > least 2 or

[DRBD-user] linstor resource inconsistent

2019-10-29 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Hi, today I set up a few nodes to experiment with linstor/drbd9 and while initially things looked good I now ran into a problem. I set up 1 controller and 3 satellite nodes. The satellite nodes each have 100G storage in an LVM volume group. Satellite and Controller are deployed using docker and