Re: Would ZFS and gmirror work well together in a two-node failover cluster?

2008-07-14 Thread David Robillard
I am looking to put together a two-node high-availability cluster where each node has identical data storage consisting of a set of internal data drives (separate from the boot drive). I want ZFS to manage the drives as a JDBOD in a RAIDZ2 configuration. Thus, if an individual drive

Re: Would ZFS and gmirror work well together in a two-node failover cluster?

2008-07-14 Thread Maurice Volaski
Which type of connection do you intend to use for the shared storage JBOD? SAN or direct attached SCSI? Don't forget to change the SCSI On each server, there would be a SATA JBOD attached internally with a 3Ware or Areca card. Which means your two node cluster won't be active/active. You'll

Would ZFS and gmirror work well together in a two-node failover cluster?

2008-07-13 Thread Maurice Volaski
I am looking to put together a two-node high-availability cluster where each node has identical data storage consisting of a set of internal data drives (separate from the boot drive). I want ZFS to manage the drives as a JDBOD in a RAIDZ2 configuration. Thus, if an individual drive misbehaves