> The questions > How should I setup my disks? I would not run server without some disk redundancy (RAID1,5,6).
> > What deb based distro should I use for my host(or present a *really* > compelling argument for something else)? > I would use ubuntu as i'm most familiar with it but the recent debacle with > unity has really hurt my confidence with them. > Should i go to debian and if so which version? > Go with one you know! Mind you, Debian an Ubuntu on a server can be quite similar, so Debian wouldn't be a big change for you. Debian has a recent stable version, I'd go with that one. > Networking > each server has 2 gbit ports on it. > should I > team the nics, then run a vlan for drbd and another for regular coms > dedicated nic for drbd and one for general coms. > How many switches do you have? If you got 2 it may worth to go with the teaming - to survive a switch failure - otherwise I'd keep it simple, ie no teaming and vlan. > Any other suggestions or gotchas to look out for? > Test as much as you can. Remove cables, power, disk, cpu :) whatever you can and learn what happens. My personal advice not to overcomplicate things, prefer a working but (half)manual failover solution over a fully automated but not working one :) I think to do some really fancy things you should have shared storage - as you don't don't push it too hard. You will not achieve 101% uptime with this setup, deal with it. Backups - DRBD is not backup. Use puppet or cfengine (or other system automation tool) from the beginning to make sure you can rebuild the whole system within minutes (this helps for testing as well). Good luck! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
