Re: [Xen-users] Looking for suggestions

[Bart Coninckx <bart.coninckx@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 09 July 2010 16:37:15 James Pifer wrote:
> > I don't see what the problem with DRBD would be, it would be the ideal
> > solution for your problem. Why do you need to write to the other DRBD
> > node? There is by the way a DBD document on their site that explains how
> > you can combine DRBD and Xen, but that is definitely not the only way.
> >
> > Rgds,
> >
> > Bart
> 
> I think I found the document you are referring to.
> 
> Both servers will run VMs, so wouldn't they both need to write to the
> DRBD node? I don't have a full understanding of DRBD, so I may be
> misstating it.
> 
> Using DRBD with xen, would each VM use a separate drbd node for it's
> disk, or would it be a large DRBD node using file based images? I'm
> still reading....
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 

OK, well in that case you could define two DRBD resources and have one server 
being active for the one resource while being passive for the other. The 
resources then individually synd to the other node. The Ganeti project might 
be interesing for you as well.


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